Word: duces
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Chief attraction was the leader, Giorgio Almirante, small-time journalist and propagandist formerly in Mussolini's service, who, after the Duce's fall, made a living as a messenger boy and traveling salesman. A ferret-like little man, he stood behind the microphone while the delegates cheered. Said he: "I stand at attention before the legion of sorrow." He continued: "They say we are sentimentalists, that we long for a past which died with one man. But we are like the apostles who gained their faith through the martyrdom of Christ...
Future Dreams. The legion of sorrow became bored. The youngsters churned aimlessly around the lobby. Whenever the Duce's name was mentioned, their eyes lit up. A young man with a slight lisp boasted: "We are getting bigger and stronger. Last month we beat up 400 leftist bastards and put 17 in the hospital...
...wardrobe cost alone for 20th Century-Fox's Prince of Foxes hit $275,000 -or about nine times what it took to pro duce both Open City and Shoeshine...
Donna Rachele Mussolini, 59-year-old widow of the Duce, was temporarily unhappy in Forio, near Naples, where she was living in a cold-water flat with her two youngest, Anna Maria and Romano. According to Luigi Criscuolo, who publishes a monthly newsletter in Manhattan, she was considering a job-hunting trip to the U.S. (the daughter of a peasant, she worked in the fields and did a brief turn as housemaid before she married Benito). Criscuolo said she was broke; her $40-a-month government pension had been cut off, but once she got to the U.S. things would...
...summer of 1943, after Mussolini had become the prisoner of Italy's Badoglio Government, it was Skorzeny whom Hitler personally assigned to rescue the Duce. After weeks of dime-thriller spy work he located Mussolini in an inaccessible hotel on the 9,560-ft. peak of the Gran Sasso in the Abruzzo Mountains northeast of Rome. He led an assault which reached the hotel by crash-landing gliders against the mountainside. Skorzeny reported: "Duce, the Führer has sent me as a token of his loyal friendship." They flew out together in a tiny plane which...