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Their leaders are ingratiating bean brains. Major Richardson (David Niven) is a swaggerstick-thin Colonel Blimp. Captain Blasi (Italy's Alberto Sordi) is a soulful doleful duce. Each spends most of his time taking miscalculated risks and falling into the other's hands. Niven falls first, when his plane crashes...
...crafty skill or un derlying steel. Every coin of the nation still bears his image and the words. "Chief of Spain by the Grace of God." Puritani cal and pious, he sometimes prays for hours in his private chapel in Pardo pal ace before making major decisions ; to in duce night-loving, late-eating Spaniards to follow his own early-to-bed habit, he has ordered Madrid restaurants and cafes to stop serving food after midnight...
...DUCE (367 pp.)-Christopher Hibbert-Little Brown...
Last month Maria Scicolone was married to Romano Mussolini, son of Il Duce and now a jazz pianist. "Since Maria has been married in white in church and in the eye of the world, my happiness is nearly complete as a mother." says Romilda. "But never as long as I live will I overcome my hate for Scicolone. Now he comes around trying to be friendly, but we don't want him, and my vendetta was nearly complete when Maria refused to let him come to her wedding. That is poetic justice." Nonetheless, when he comes around, Romilda still...
What was planned to be a quiet, out-of-the-way wedding for Romano Mussolini, 34, jazz pianist son of II Duce, and Maria Scicolone, 23, curvy kid sister of Sophia Loren, turned into a tragicomic Roman holiday. With tumultuous thousands mobbing the tiny church at Predappio (where his father is buried), the bridegroom fainted dead away, but was revived by injection of a stimulant in time to weather the ceremony. The day came to an ill-starred conclusion when the chauffeur-driven Rolls of sister Sophia was involved in a collision that killed a local schoolteacher...