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...Roommates have decided that, with his new beard, Jarrett L. Ciano ’06 looks like a troll. Ciano, busy splashing river water at passersby on the Weeks Footbridge, was unavailable for comment...
...government fled the city. Franz Spelman, who visited filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl, Hitler's famous propagandist, at her villa near Munich, discovered a well-coiffed blond who had just returned from scuba diving in the Caribbean and looked 20 years . younger than her age (87). Leonora Dodsworth tracked down Edda Ciano, Mussolini's eldest daughter, at her elegant apartment in Rome. "She has Il Duce's baleful glare and obviously still adores her father...
Throughout the Western world, he will perhaps be best remembered for his appearance before the League of Nations in Geneva on June 30, 1936. His country had been overrun by the Blackshirt battalions of Benito Mussolini, whose son-in-law, Count Ciano, ecstatically described the beauty of "bombs opening like red blossoms" upon the Ethiopian highlands. Hundreds of thousands of his barefoot soldiers had been killed by Fascist bombs and mustard gas. A small, bearded, hawk-faced figure with blazing black eyes, he stood at the lectern and declared: "I am here today to claim the justice that...
...exciting." Some of the most interesting challenges are the handful of queries that cannot be answered quickly. Lateiner spent half a day in 1961 discovering that the line "Victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan," quoted by President Kennedy, comes from the diary of Count Galeazzo Ciano, Mussolini's Foreign Minister. Only in 1968 did Bartlett's Familiar Quotations get around to listing...
...Mediterranean, but he did not want to be dragged into a major European war. When Hitler invaded Russia, again without consulting Mussolini, many Fascists began to have second thoughts about the Axis pact. Among them was Mussolini's son-in-law and Foreign Minister, Count Galeazzo Ciano, who upbraided the German ambassador to Italy for hours on end. "The Germans seem to be [Ciano's] favorite target," an Italian official wrote. "He enjoys himself by talking of them in the worst possible way . . . Bum here, bum there; imbecile Germany here, cretinous Germans there; 'that delinquent Ribbentrop...