Word: duces
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...perhaps even less attention to her spectacled escort in the woolly sweater. But she was none other than Marina Mussolini, 19, granddaughter of Italy's late Fascist dictator. Marina was raised by her aunt, Countess Edda Ciano, after her father, Flying Ace Bruno Mussolini, favorite son of il Duce, died while testing a bomber that crashed in 1941. Now enrolled in a very proper North London finishing school, she stepped out for an early evening date (curfew on that occasion: 8 p.m.) with Sergio Valva, an old acquaintance...
Playhouse 90 (CBS, 9:30-11 p.m.). Benito Mussolini did not quite make it to the Swiss border with the $60 million he plucked from the Italian treasury as the Allies advanced, but here is a dramatization of how close he came. Starring as // Duce: Nehemiah Persoff...
Died. Giuseppe Bottai, 63, high-level factotum for Il Duce's regime, early Fascist organizer; after long illness; in Rome. Bottai commanded 8,000 blackshirted militia in the 1922 march on Rome that seized power from the king. For his friend Benito, he was Minister of National Education. Governor of Rome, Civil Governor of Addis Ababa, Minister of Corporations. When things looked black in 1943, Bottai discreetly disappeared, later turned up in the French Foreign Legion...
...African conquest at Mussolini's whim. One day Mussolini called him to his Palazzo Venezia, said: "I can't see the Colosseum from my window." Replied Vaselli: "There's a hill in the way. Give me an order and I'll remove it." Cried the Duce: "I want a wide road joining the Palazzo Venezia and the Colosseum. Along it shall march Italian youth with its 8,000,000 sharp bayonets. It shall be called the Via dell' Impero...
...more. Like Crassus of old (who introduced the first fire-fighting service to Caesar's Rome but always bought up threatened nearby properties dirt-cheap before dousing the flames), he picked up many a real-estate bargain from cash-short owners in the course of cutting through the Duce's grandiose streets and squares. By 1937 Vaselli was known as the "garbage baron" and "asphalt king." And when typhus broke out again in Rome, Mussolini blamed him. After a vast check, Vaselli took Mussolini early one morning to a Roman creamery. There the Duce saw that the milkmaids...