Word: balbo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Flesh & Steel The Italians fly in a cavalcade of seven compact triads and one quartet. Leading them all is Balbo 's plane, identified by a large black star on the fuselage. Each plane, with a crew of two pilots, a radioman & mechanic, is equipped with a pneumatic lifeboat. Each man has a sort of light diving suit in which he can live for half an hour under water. Taboo as provisions are liquor and chicken. To Italian airmen fowl is a jinx...
...soon Balbo's squadron might reach the U. S., once it started, even he would not predict. Given fair weather all the way it could make the seven jumps in a week or ten days. But peasoup fogs boil up around Labrador, and General Balbo has flatly stated that he will turn back rather than foolishly risk a ship. Yet, if he decides to go ahead, he has no patience with a crew which fails to keep its plane where it belongs. His orders: "Arrive with the plane or don't arrive...
...Atlantico. Technical commander of the flight, organizer and executive is Col. Pellegrini, 44, seasoned naval officer, whose wife is the U. S.-born daughter of Theodore Kaschmann. Metropolitan Opera baritone of 20 years ago. But no other man calls himself, or is called, commander from the moment Italo Balbo steps upon the scene. Glory or blame will fall squarely upon the shoulders of that amazing man whose worshippers call him L'Atlantico...
...politics of the past five years are two blackbearded men sometimes called "the twins." The other with the beard is Dino Grandi, onetime Minister of Foreign Affairs. There is a story that when II Duce ousted Signor Grandi from the cabinet last year he simultaneously sent Air Minister Balbo a letter informing him that his "resignation was accepted." Minister Balbo is supposed to have marched straight in upon II Duce, handed back the letter as "sent by mistake." That tale is told by antiFascists to illustrate their belief that Premier Mussolini fears his Air Minister because of the latter...
...Italo Balbo at 23 came out of the War and the hardy Alpine corps with a bronze medal, two silver medals, a lisp and vaguely revolutionary ideas. The last he put into a newspaper called L'Alpino. Back in his native Ferrara where, as a schoolboy, he had organized and led farmworkers in fights against landowners. Balbo was among the first to enroll in the rising movement of Fascism. Enormously ambitious, popping with energy, he made such a good job of clubbing the opposition that he was put in charge of II Duce's own territory. When...