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Died. Benjamin Anzelevitz, 52, "Ben Bernie, the O-O-Old Maestro," genial, plush-voiced veteran of stage, radio, screen; of a lung infection with heart complications ; in Beverly Hills. An East Side New York blacksmith's son, at 15 he gave a violin recital in Carnegie Hall, took up engineering after hearing Mischa Elman's debut.* In a Brauhaus he played his way through college, finally landed in vaudeville as "Ben, The Eccentric Violinist." In the early '20s he formed one of the country's leading dance bands (for a while his pianist was Oscar Levant...
...stone's throw from the bandbox grandstand, fires burned and horses were shod in emergency blacksmith shops (it takes from two to three hours to shoe a harness horse: each shoe is put on at a different angle). Harness makers, like ambulant country storekeepers, set up business outside their trailers. Bearded drivers displaced Empire's familiar, flashy midget jockeys in white duck...
...quiet moment now, Benito Mussolini's mind flashed back, what highlights might it dwell on? There were many: Varano di Costa, an old hamlet on a hill in northern Italy, where he was born 60 years ago; his schoolteacher mother and blacksmith father; the black columns of Popolo d'ltalia, "my most cherished child"; the day in Milan when he needlessly barricaded his newspaper shop while his comrades elsewhere marched on Rome and waited until he arrived by railroad sleeper; the following day when, in black shirt and hip pistol, he stood before Vittorio Emanuele and said...
Benito Juarez Amilcare Andrea Mussolini, born July 29, 1883, tasted the grey bread of the poor in his early youth and never forgot it. From his part-time blacksmith father he learned atheism and anarchy. From his schoolteacher mother he learned enough culture to become, first a grade-school teacher, then a journalist. He sold out the policy of his first important newspaper (Avanti), official organ of the Italian Socialist Party, for a reported price of $8,000 a month...
...Volume I of this huge work centers around mighty Salathiel Al-bine, offspring of a blacksmith frontiersman. One day the child Salathiel left his parents' cabin on the wild Pennsylvania frontier, went down to the spring for water. "A brown arm with a copper band around it came out of the bushes and grasped him by the hair." Little Salathiel knew "the Injuns...