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Education of Sogno. This was the first time that such strong charges had been aired in Italy's Parliament-which explained the Communists' wrath. But millions of Italians had been talking about the accusations in recent weeks, as the result of a systematic campaign to dish out the true dirt on the Reds. The campaign is the work of slight, natty Edgardo Sogno, 39, who was one of Italy's top resistance heroes in the war. Toward the end of the war, when the Germans were still holding on in the north, Sogno smuggled so many refugees...
...Italian democracy in the 1953 elections, Sogno returned to Rome and started an anti-Communist monthly called Pace e Libertà. For his editor Sogno chose a formidable man: square-jawed Luigi Cavallo, an ex-Communist and ex-editor of the Red daily L'Unità. To dish the dirt on the Reds, Cavallo drew on extensive files, a long memory and sources inside the party...
Under the Dish, a Dish. Melbourne entered the world "free from the tiresome inhibitions that are induced by a sense of inferiority." He had no need to feel inferior; he was rumored not to be the son of the first Lord Melbourne-a dull fellow-but of his mother's favorite lover, Lord Egremont. The dashing Egremont, the story went, had had to pay ?13,000 when he "bought" her from another lover, Lord Coleraine (lover and mistress, it was said, shared the proceeds...
...indolent, skeptical fellow, Melbourne was fatally attracted by vigorous, strong-willed women. His wife, Caroline Ponsonby (known in Whig circles as "the Fairy Queen"), was fond of her amiable husband, but fonder, it was said, of such rare thrills as being "carried [into dinner] concealed under a silver dish cover, from which she emerged on the dinner table stark naked...
...really lived it up. They dined on roast lark, ginger fritters and porcupine seethed in almond milk, and their halls were strewed with cartloads of rose petals. The Plantagenets' brides were not so hot, but their mistresses were every bit as toothsome as the ginger fritters. Such a dish was Katherine de Roet, the daughter of an obscure herald. She had scarcely settled down at the court of Edward III when she was nearly raped by a dour Saxon knight. The gay John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, later prominent in Shakespeare ("Live in thy shame...