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...World. Said Amedeo Panizzi, 71, just out after a month's illness: "That bit of news gave me more pleasure than getting out of that hot, hard bed." Said Attilio Bertini: "It's good of America to help. The ships coming back to us is the best thing. They can bring raw materials for our industries, and we can put our shoulders to the wheel. But we hope those ships will never bring war materials." Renato de Santis, a Communist, said (and many non-Communists agreed): "The Americans will make us give something in exchange. They treat...
...Died. Amedeo Obici, 69, pint-sized (5 ft. 1 in.) giant of the peanut business; of uremic poisoning; in Wilkes-Barre, Pa. An Italian immigrant, Obici at the turn of the century opened a Wilkes-Barre peanut stand which eventually grew into the huge Planters Nut & Chocolate...
...just 14 years old, and spindly, when typhoid fever struck him. Lying abed, in the ghetto of Leghorn, Amedeo Modigliani raved about Italy's long-dead Renaissance, and confessed to his own longing to paint. His mother heard, and promised to send him to art school...
Frolicking Fascist. The family feud began when Mussolini first threatened to supplant diminutive King Victor Emmanuel III with his cousin, Emmanuel Philibert. Mussolini later showered affection upon Emmanuel Philibert's two towering pro-Fascist sons, Amedeo and Aimone (who later married beautiful Princess Irene of Greece...
Died. Prince Amedeo di Savoia, Duke of Aosta, 43, ex-Governor General of Italian East Africa and Viceroy of Ethiopia; of tuberculosis; in Kenya Colony, East Africa. Mussolini's most ardent supporter in the House of Savoy, the tall, slim "Fascist Duke" was believed by many to have been given his African job as grooming for the Italian throne. But in Ethiopia he lost all but 17,000 of his 100,000 troops, surrendered to the British...