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...Judy Garland (Simon & Schuster; $9.95). Author Edwards, an English film scenarist, belongs to the Ptolemaic school of cinema biography. In this genre, all global events are subordinated to the subject: "Frances Ethel Gumm, the future Judy Garland, was born on June 10, 1922, about the same time as Benito Mussolini marched on Rome and took up the reins of dictatorship. Not even Ethel in her greatest moments of fantasy could have imagined that her third baby would some day come to represent to a nation fighting the Fascism of Hitler and Mussolini the ideal American girl...
...Hans Werner Henze and a skilled hand in a variety of contemporary stylings, has composed a symphony (Ariel), which the National Symphony will perform next season. He is also writing a trio of one-act operas, one of which will be based on Herman Melville's story Benito Cereno. In Wilmington, Ohio, Robert J. Haskins is writing an operatic version of The Bell-Tower, also by Melville-not a writer known for his racy plots...
People is a TIME tradition that began when the news in our first issue (March 3, 1923) was lightened by "Imaginary Interviews" with that week's newsmakers: Jack Dempsey, Prince George, Henry Ford Sr. and Benito Mussolini. In the decades since, People has become one of the most popular sections in the magazine. Many readers turn to it first for sort of an editorial hors d'oeuvre because of its varied items, some funny, some nostalgic, some simply newsy. Says Senior Editor Martha Duffy, who has edited the section for more than a year: "It is often...
...superpatriot who decries the social changes that are moving Japan away from traditional manners and mores. In traditional fashion, he likes to boast of his conquest of more than 500 women, ranging from "a distant relative of Emperor Taisho to almost all the top geisha." His unbridled admiration for Benito Mussolini -"the perfect fascist and dictator" -lingers to this day. Indeed, Sasakawa sometimes boasts that he is the "world's wealthiest fascist...
...family friend returns to the farm and is shot by the local police. This is enough to turn the boy, now a young man called Tunin (Giancarlo Gianinni), toward anarchy and toward Rome, where he journeys to fire a bullet, engraved with the initials B.M., into the skull of Benito Mussolini...