Word: counte
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Travel-worn leather bags stood ready last week in a modest Manhattan apartment. Count Carlo Sforza, urbane, white-bearded, was about to begin a long trip home. Sixteen years ago he and his family were hounded into exile by Fascismo's bullyboys, who burned down their villa and might have murdered them. Now, at 70, Italy's distinguished liberal refugee had been granted Allied permission to go home...
Hour of Tragedy. When Benito Mussolini, the proletarian, marched on Rome in 1922, Carlo Sforza, the aristocrat, 17th count of a venerable line, was Italian Ambassador in Paris. He had reached that post after diplomatic service from London to China and a spell as Foreign Minister. With the Blackshirt government he would have no truck. He resigned as Ambassador, returned to Rome, denounced Fascismo and its dangerous "adventurers" from his seat in the Senate. The Duce said that he could have twelve bullets put into Count Sforza. The Count replied that political murder was inadvisable. But the time came, during...
Hour of Hope. Count Sforza shaped a program for Italy...
They also serve who only stand and wait - and more often than not this cat-at-every-mousehole policy eventually pays dividends in the kind of vivid, human stories we hope you have come to count on in TIME...
...little oil town of Pelly, he hoisted his 240 lb. to a platform, made an organizing speech while workers encouraged him with traditional Texas yells of "Pour it on 'em." Deputy Sheriff W. B. Milner whispered to Thomas' publicity man that "it wouldn't count" unless Thomas made a direct appeal to an individual. The publicity man passed up a note to his boss. Said he: "It's getting damned hard to get arrested these days...