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May 3, 1936

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Veni, Vidi, Vici

By Unknown Author

The curtain is falling on the last act of the Italo-Ethiopian War, and Premier Mussolini has his victory. In the brief space of seven months his armies have accomplished what non-Italian military experts the world over had called the impossible. They have driven a wedge 300 miles into the heart of a mountainous and forbidding land and they have destroyed virtually all of the organized defense that stood in their path.

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WHAT PROVIDES AN INTERNATIONAL APPEAL?

By CHARLES MORGAN

WHILE listening to a revue, "Spread It Abroad," which is the most pointed and the wittiest revue that has lately been seen in London, I was led to ask myself what it is that gives to a work of art or to an entertainment an international circulation.

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300 MODEL YACHTS VIE IN PARK RACES; Many Strangely Rigged Craft Sail Conservatory Lake in Twelfth Annual Regatta. BOILER BLAST ADDS TO DIN For Home-Made Power Boats Also Have Chance to Win for Youthful Owners. 300 MODEL YACHTS VIE IN PARK RACES

By Unknown Author

Close-hauled and heeling well over in a spanking breeze, 300 model yachts owned by young racing enthusiasts whipped across Conservatory Lake in Central Park yesterday afternoon in the twelfth annual sailboat regatta conducted by the Department of Parks under sponsorship of Bloomingdale's.

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