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From the meeting Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop and General Keitel reportedly hurried to Verona to talk with Italy's new Foreign Minister, Raffaele Guariglia. The Chief of the Italian General Staff, General Vittorio Ambrosio, joined them, "on the germans' invitation," in "important discussions." From the German point of view these discussions had only two objects: maximum, to hold the Badoglio Government to its Axis alliance for war and/or peace; minimum, to keep Italy in the war long enough for Germany to get forces and matériel down through the Brenner to hold a de fensive line...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: The Sound of Doom | 8/16/1943 | See Source »

...ulcers or mental distress) or too busy to attend the reception for Pierre Laval in Germany (see p. 23). More likely he was too busy, for he still behaved like an aged errand,boy. He shook up his Party directorate and was reported to have fired General Vittorio Ambrosio, Army Chief of Staff, and General Ettore Bastico, Marshal of Italy and onetime Governor of Libya, for "unprincipled pacifism." His own unprincipled imperialism was given its epitaph by Sagittarius' second verse of parody...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Nevermore | 12/28/1942 | See Source »

...featherweight crown because he considered it too bothersome to get his weight down to the required maximum of 126 Ibs. Last week, before a crowd of 30,000 in New York's Yankee Stadium, another crown-the lightweight-toppled off when onetime Champion Lou Ambers (Luigi D'Ambrosio), whom he had dethroned a year ago, was awarded the nod in a 15-round match for the title...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Armstrong v. Ambers | 9/4/1939 | See Source »

...Bernardo O'Higgins, born 1780 was the natural son of a Chilean mother and an adventurous Irish father, Ambrosio O'Higgins. Born plain Ambrose O'Higgins in County Meath, Father Ambrosio went to South America to seek his fortune and was so successful that he became the Spanish-appointed Governor of Chile. Son Bernardo was educated in Spain and England, returned to work, later fight, for Chilean independence at the side of South America's famed liberator, José de San Martin. In 1817 Bernardo O'Higgins became benevolent dictator of Chile's first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHILE: Worst Shake | 2/6/1939 | See Source »

Luigi D'Ambrosio (Lou Ambers) and Tony Canzoneri began fighting each other in 1931. They fought several rounds every day. Canzoneri, then lightweight champion, was training for an important bout and Ambers was his sparring partner. When Canzoneri finished training and his sparring partner went on to become a fighter famed in his own right, the Canzoneri v. Ambers combat, instead of ending, became intensified. When they met for the lightweight championship in 1935, Canzoneri won. When they met again last September, Ambers won. Last week, in Madison Square Garden, they fought for the championship once more. This time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Ambers v. Canzoneri | 5/17/1937 | See Source »

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