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...tale of 14th Century Verona, the star-cross'd lovers' sacrifice united the feuding groups. In the tale of 20th Century Berlin, there was no such promise...
...body of the Dent de Crolles, a 6,765-ft. mountain in the western Alps. Eleven hours later the party emerged from the other side of the mountain and announced that they had worked their way 658 meters (2,158 ft.) below their starting point. The previous record, near Verona, Italy: 637 meters...
Married. Countess Victoria Calvi di Bergolo, 19, tall, brunette niece of ex-King Umberto of Italy; and 28-year-old Count Guglielmo Guarienti di Brezone, member of an old Verona family; in Alexandria, Egypt. The ceremony, brightened by royal relatives-including Umberto and the bride's grandfather, ex-King Victor Emmanuel-was somewhat marred by an unfulfilled threat (presumably by a few local Italian republicans) to bomb the church...
William Shakespeare looked like the Bard of the Volga on his 382nd birthday: his native Stratford blossomed with its customary annual festival, but the Soviet Union broke out all over. Hamlet was a smash in Armenia, King Lear drew iron tears down Tartar cheeks, Two Gentlemen of Verona titillated the Uzbekistanians; altogether, Shakespeare was played to polyglot Russia in 27 languages...
Confusion spread through their forces. A Messerschmitt pilot landed near Verona, found himself looking into the guns of a squad of U.S. soldiers and heard a Yankee voice drawl, "Climb down, brother, it's old-home week." Cabled TIME Correspondent Reg Ingraham : "At a road junction I saw a dozen dead Germans sprawled grotesquely in the dust beside wrecked vehicles and one dead mule. They had run into an American road block while trying to escape north ward." By the 21st day of the offensive, 120,000 of the estimated 250,000 Germans in Italy were prisoners. The chance...