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...years the House of Savoy has stood divided by a polite but firm family feud. Last week the faction headed by Crown Prince Umberto, Lieut. General of the Realm, was enjoying a temporary upper hand over the faction represented by his 45-year-old playboy cousin, Prince Aimone di Savoia, Duke of Aosta...
Frolicking Fascist. The family feud began when Mussolini first threatened to supplant diminutive King Victor Emmanuel III with his cousin, Emmanuel Philibert. Mussolini later showered affection upon Emmanuel Philibert's two towering pro-Fascist sons, Amedeo and Aimone (who later married beautiful Princess Irene of Greece...
...village spinster, in her later years became cross, sharp-tongued, quarrelsome and grasping, with long black hair, broken, irregular teeth (mostly false) and dirty hands and fingernails. Their brother Austin married Susan, their school girl friend, a tavernkeeper's daughter. Susan soon became involved in a lifelong feud with sister-in-law Lavinia...
...umpteenth time Sister Elizabeth Kenny, the Australian nurse who developed the Kenny treatment for infantile paralysis, last week threatened to go home. Her running feud with orthodox medical men has long enlivened the press (TIME, Sept. 27, 1943; June 26). And her forthright disposition has earned her the nicknames "The Duchess" and "Madam Queen." Not satisfied when doctors accept her methods, she insists that they also accept her theories-theories that many experts say lack proof...
Onward Destiny. Together with Argentina's Government, Colonel Perón inherited Argentina's feud with the U.S. State Department. President Castillo had been a great Yankee-hater. Relations grew worse when Castillo was overthrown. Some of the new Spiritual Renovators looked not merely anti-U.S., but pro-Axis. U.S. newspapers began to cry that they were setting up a full-fledged Fascist state in the Western Hemisphere...