ITALY: Penn's Minturnae

A frank admirer of Americans, dynamic Benito Mussolini granted to the University of Pennsylvania the first concession to unearth Italian ruins vhich the Italian Government has granted to foreigners for 30 years. Last week there was news from the Penn excavations 90 miles from Rome, news as important to international goodwill as to archeology. "We have unearthed," said Penn's scholarly Dr. Jotham Johnson, "a vast pre-Roman city four times larger than Pompei. . . . We have unearthed an ancient Greek market place unique in the world. Such, a find does not...

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