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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Turning from bread to babes Benito Mussolini spent one whole day quietly with his family before roaring back to Rome. Most Mussolinesque of his children is eldest daughter Edda. She, reputedly born before the civil marriage of her father was solemnized by the Church, now maintains a superior patronizing air toward daughters of the Roman aristocracy who dare not snub her in return. Recently she toured India, was pampered by Maharajas; presented with two tigers. Like Papa Benito she swims, dives, pilots a racing motor, sometimes takes the joystick of an air- plane. When he is away she is said...
...Romano is the first child of my second series!" exclaimed the Dictator when the babe was born. Last week he said: "Anna Maria is the second child of my second series, which I intend to make a long one." Placed on scales, Babe Anna Maria was reported to weigh no less than eleven pounds. Pious Catholics rejoiced that her names are those of the Grandmother and the Mother of Jesus Christ...
...tobacco in all its forms. Opposed to all scientific attainment, Overseer Voliva nonetheless operates one of the most powerful broadcasting stations in the U. S. He explains: ''Our radio station is a matter between God and the Christian Catholic Apostolic Church. It was conceived and born in prayer." Despite its solvency, Zion City remains unattractive. The houses, except for Overseer Voliva's rococo mansion, are low and cheap. The streets are dusty, with incredibly deep thank-you-ma'ams. A monster billboard warns transients to obey the laws of Zion or begone...
Sidi Wirt Spreckels Chakir, in Reno to divorce Turkish Prince Suad Bey Chakir, heard that she had won a $5,000 damage suit against Egyptian Princess Chivekar who had named her in a divorce suit. Born on a Kansas Farm, Sidi Wirt married and divorced Harry Williams, Kansas City newspaperman, married Sugarman John D. Spreckels, inherited his estate, married Prince Chakir in Constantinople in 1923, has figured in Eu- ropean news as Cabaret Dancer Saida Worth, lately as Mme. Saida...
...these new invest ment trusts each represent a distinct "set" in Chicago finance. One represents the Loop.* the other the North Shore; one represents a self-made generation, the other a second generation of inherited wealth and social prominence. Loop Team (Manhattan-Dearborn Corp.) John Daniel Hertz, Austrian born, "re tired" at 50, is the man who brought the Yellow Cab to Chicago and collected a fortune from its clicking meters. Once he wrote about sportsmen for the Chicago Record (extinct). Now he is himself a sportsman (chiefly horses) and winters in a cream-colored house on the Florida bank...