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Focus of carnaval is swank, tree-lined Avenida Rio Branco. There on Sunday thousands of automobiles (mostly sub-jalopy seven-passenger touring cars) brimming with people in costume drive along in the "Corso" singing, pelting each other with confetti. Monday the "Ranches" take over the town, small clubs of marchers who skimp for months for their costumes, compete heatedly in dancing, playing, singing. Tuesday night winds up with a contest of mammoth floodlit floats. Wednesday, the first day of Lent, is a half-holiday conceded to the slack-jawed weariness of the city...
...command was said to be General Rino Corso Fougier. Named to be active squadron leader was hard-boiled Ettore Muti, Secretary General of the Fascist Party, a flier of proved ability with a reputation for courage. (He is credited with leading long-range raids on Haifa and, last fortnight, on the Bahrein Islands.) The Corso-Muti squadron was reported attached to the German air fleet commanded by Nazi General Albert Kesselring-but still no Italian planes or pilots were reported over Great Britain by R. A. F., which awaited them with cold-steel curiosity...
...Eternal City had a Walter Winchell ("On Broadway"), he would have needed only the doings of the Mussolini family last week to fill most of his column ("On the Corso")* in somewhat this wise: Middle-aisling it on Feb. 6 are the Big Patoot's Manchild No. i, Vittorio, 21, who sports a fine young spinach, and his pretty poopsy, Signorina Orsola Buvoli of Milan, penniless and proud of it. Rome's swellegant hotel will feed the churchgoers out of the Big Patoot's private cache of frog-skins. . . . Dream pigeon of the week is Silvia...
...Corso Umberto Primo or Street of Humbert I is Rome's "Central Street," ends at Il Duce's office, contains the best shops, better-than-Broadway hotels, adjoins theatres and would adjoin "hotspots" except that Il Duce has drastically cooled all these...
...overflows with secret societies and patriotic leagues. Three months ago an old one reappeared, known as the Society of Awakened Magyars, a chief tenet of which was that all unmarried Hungarian girls over 12 should wear chastity belts. Last week brought another when along the cafe fronts of the Corso marched a stalwart line of little people no higher than the table tops with banners at their head marked "JUSTICE FOR DWARFS," "MIDGETS,AWAKE...