The Press: Nero

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" Have you ever wondered how Nero looked when, purple toga folded about him, he strode from his chariot to the imperial box to give the signal for the Coliseum games to commence ? " I can tell you across the 19 centuries that are but minutes on the calendar of the Almighty, the heritage of Latin blood has not been lost from the Italian loins that sired him and from the Andalusian breasts that he suckled "— What magnificent figure is about to stride across the printed page? For whose entry was this tremendous barrage of rhetoric laid down ? A Mussolini? A d'Annunzio? No. The Daily News (New York), upstart, rich-quick, gum-chewing little brother of the Chicago Daily Tribune, made this preparation for Luis Angel Firpo. He " has acquired the Mediterranean grace of stride, suavity of conduct, beauty of gesture and an inimitable pose before the human gallery in all he does."