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Outside the Hilton, at the corner of Michigan avenue and Balbo Drive, I stood talking to Winston Spencer Churchill. Churchill was kicking around the world as a correspondent. I noticed he liked to watch the reaction when he stuck out his hand and said, "Hullo, I'm Winston Churchill." For he resembled his grandfather's pictures taken when that young Winston covered the Boer War at the turn of the century--boyish and freckled, greedy for trouble. Now, behind the police lines, Churchill and I chatted with a guilty, voyeur's air, as if awaiting some illegal sporting event...
...Across Balbo* Avenue in his headquarters at the Conrad Hilton, Taft was also watching the ballot on TV. In defeat, the man who had tried so long and hard to be President was calm and collected. But all over Taft headquarters, women workers were in tears...
...Named in honor of Mussolini's Italo Balbo, who set Chicago on its ear in 1933 when he led two dozen seaplanes in a 6,100-mile, 16-day flight from Orbetello, Italy via Amsterdam and Iceland to Chicago, where they landed in perfect formation on Lake Michigan...
...Premier at the outbreak of World War II, Maher dutifully followed the British lead and broke off diplomatic relations with the Axis in 1939. Later, when Maher began receiving visits from Goebbels, Mussolini's Balbo and their ilk, the British became suspicious and complained to Farouk. The King dismissed Maher, and in 1942 the British arranged to have him placed under "house arrest" for the duration...
...during the war. Handsome General Luigi Gallo, who was a squadron leader in Italo Balbo's famed formation flight to the U.S. in 1933, and in 1945 became director of Italian civil aviation, was made boss of operations...