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During the last months of the German occupation of Rome, no one in Italy was more hated by antiFascists, more feared even by Fascists, than Rome's chief of police, Pietro Caruso...
...Verona last January, it was Caruso who had the job of executing Count Galeazzo Ciano, Mussolini's son-in-law and Foreign Minister, whom Hitler had condemned to death. Calmly, Caruso sent a bullet into the back of Cianos head as the latter sat astraddle a chair; cooly he fired a coup de grâce when Ciano's squirming spoiled the accuracy of the first...
Last week Italian partisans caught Caruso north of Rome, delivered him into Allied hands...
Reported Dead. Lina Cavalieri, 69, beauteous, thrice-married soprano of Caruso's day; in an air raid on Florence, Italy. It was on the occasion of her profitable divorce from the late eccentric Robert Winthrop ("Sheriff Bob") Chanler that his late eccentric brother John Armstrong Chaloner sent him the famed telegram: "Who's loony...
Metropolitan Revivals (Enrico Caruso. Luisa Tetrazzini, Marcella Sembrich. Antonio Scotti, Geraldine Farrar, Marcel Journet, Louise Homer and others; Victor; 8 sides). Despite their mechanical and tonal obsolescence, Victor's oldtime recordings prove that the Golden Age voices were as beautiful as oldtimers claim...