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...upward from a base of equal height. Pulling the ripcord, Italy's Dictator revealed a 300-ton obelisk of Carrara marble embellished with no inscription except nine letters in high relief-MUSSOLINI. Apropos a gymnastic exhibition by both sexes which next took place in the stadium, Signer Leonardo Arpinati, Undersecretary of Interior and head of the Italian Olympic Committee, revealed last week the result of experiments at Bologna by Italian doctors on Italian sportswomen. "Our investigations have proved," said Signer Arpinati, ''that sports do have a beneficial effect on woman's physique. The sportswoman, however, should...
Because such women were conceivable to Signer Arpinati a few months ago, he barred Italian females from competing for their country in the Los Angeles Olympics (TIME...
...have tried to attract men and put them to the test. There is already a ruling class of excellent minds; for example: Grandi, Balbo, Bottai and Arpinati...
...Italo Balbo, who looks enough like Dino Grandi to be his twin, is Minister of Air. Arpinati is Under Secretary of the Interior...
...views as well as his low opinion of the musical value of "Giovinezza" prompted him long ago to refuse to play it, and il Fascismo once became so irritated as to threaten him with its famed, ugly castor oil cure. It was no new experience for him when Leandro Arpinati. Under Secretary of the Interior, and Boss of Bologna, requested that before the Bologna concert last month he perform the Fascist tune and the ''Marcia Reale" (royal march of the house of Savoy). Though Conductor Toscanini suspected no trap, he stoutly refused. Boss Arpinati suggested that the Bologna...