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Died. Luigi Amedeo Giuseppe Maria Ferdinando Francesco. Duke of the Abruzzi, Prince of Savoy, 60, cousin of Italy's King Vittorio Emmanuele, onetime (1915-17) commander-in-chief of Italy's navy, 1932 president of the merged Italia Line; of arteriosclerosis; in Abruzzi City, Italian Somaliland, Africa. During the War his fleet saved the Serbian Army, fighting hopelessly with its back to the sea. In 1922 Albania offered him its throne...
When his motorboat was smashed on an Adriatic reef near Pola, the Duke of Spoleto, cousin to King Vittorio Emanuele of Italy, swam back from the safety of the shore to rescue his companion, a Lieutenant Cavalli...
Born. To Bulgaria's Tsar Boris III, 38; and Queen loanna, 25, daughter of Italy's King Vittorio Emmanuele; a first child, daughter, 8 Ib.; in Sofia, Bulgaria. Name: Maria Louise...
...Your Excellency, I am 73 years old!" cried Director Vittorio Rolandi-Ricci, one-time Italian Ambassador to the U. S. and now a senator, dealing with Il Duce. "Surely, on account of my age-entirely on account of my age-I should resign...
...deck hand on a sailing ship. Jay Gould kept the bargain, gave him a job on the Erie at .$30 a month, from which he rapidly skyrocketed to be general auditor of the road. Hulking young Morosini with his flamboyant manner, his bullet head, his colossal mustaches (alia Vittorio Emmamiele} and his stiletto was the kind of man Gould, the unscrupulous railway pirate, could understand. Before long he was Gould's "secretary" (armed bodyguard), finally a full fledged Gould partner-and then how the money rolled in! He married, built a great rambling mid-Victorian palazzo at Riverdale...