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...South African prison camp, Italy's leading welterweights, Gino Verdinelli and Giovanni Manca, steamed up training for a return match. The knockout of Mussolini had given the bout a red-hot political significance: Manca, winner of the first match (TIME, May 3), had become champion of the Royalists, Verdinelli, a gladiator of the Fascists. Faced with this explosive mixture, British officers, who had turned out in numbers to see the first fight, decided something had to be done. They ordered Manca and Verdinelli to put up their jump ropes, retire their sparring partners, the match had been canceled...
...This indifference to the commonplaces of liberal thought makes the very texture of Forster's novels. . . ." The theme of Forster's first novel, Where Angels Fear To Tread, is the "violent opposition between British respectability and a kind of pagan and masculine integration" in the character of Gino Carella. "For the poor, lost, respectable British people, Gino may serve as the embodiment of the masculine and pagan principle, but Forster knows that he is also coarse, dull, vain, pretentious, facilely polite and very much taken with the charms of respectability...
Twice the Italian garrison had been invited to surrender. Admiral Gino Pavesi, senior Italian officer, and his men clung to Pantelleria's 32 sq. mi. of volcanic rock. Each refusal increased the tempo of attack. First the Spadillo airfield was blown to bits. Then the island's one good harbor, a nest for E-boats and submarines harassing the Sicilian straits, was smashed. Low-flying planes bounced their bombs down ramps leading to underground hangars. "Pattern bombing" crushed gun emplacements...
...prison camp in South Africa's Transvaal, two Italian soldiers last week fought a rousing ten-round battle for the welterweight championship of the crumbling Italian Empire. One was Gino Verdinelli, winner of the national welterweight tournament held in Rome in 1940. The other was Giovanni Manca, 1941 welterweight champion of the Italian Empire. For a purse, Italian officers had contributed ?100 (around $400) from their prison earnings. For a referee they chose a South African: popular, pint-sized Captain T. St. John Dean...
...Wertham's conclusion: Gino's murder of his mother was a safety valve, an act to preserve his sanity. If he had not killed his mother, he would have gone mad. Said the doctor: "Gino acted like a man who cuts off his arm to escape blood poisoning. By the cruel deed, he eradicated his own mother-complex." Such a violent act to release a neurosis Dr. Wertham calls "catathymic crisis." It accounts, says he, for many murders committed by otherwise sane persons. After the temporary aberration they may have a good chance of returning to sanity again...