Word: herbert
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Benito Mussolini, according to a report from the New York Times' crack Rome Correspondent Herbert L. Matthews, lost 50 pounds in the last nerve-racking month of his dictatorship. Source for the story was an Italian army doctor who treated Mussolini's ulcers, heard him complain: "The Italian people is a superficial people in every way, even in religion. They believe in a saint only when, and to the extent that he answers their prayers. . . . They cover themselves with a varnish that has no depth and leaves no trace...
...Herbert Moy, a U.S.-born Chinese, is the voice of the German station in Shanghai. His news is delivered with a steady sneer. The station puts on an afternoon-full of classical recordings, principally by the Boston, Minneapolis and Philadelphia orchestras...
Died. Sir Arthur Herbert Tennyson Somers Cocks, 6th Baron Somers, 57, Chief Scout of the British Commonwealth since World Chief Scout Sir Robert Baden-Powell's death in 1941; in Herfordshire, England. In merit-badge circles. Scout Cocks was chiefly famed for first-aid work (he was onetime World War II Red Cross commissioner in Egypt...
Merry ("Madcap") Fahrney, red-haired cough-syrup heiress (TIME, April 19, 1943), who romped off to Buenos Aires two years ago after divorcing husband No. 5 and denouncing the U.S., declared herself finished with Nazi Baron Herbert von Strempel (up-to-the-last-minute favorite for No. 6) and ready to marry again. Her new intended was 20-year-old Carlos Ojeda, son of Mexico's Ambassador to Argentina. A short-time Columbia student, Carlos spoke enough English to reveal that she was "the most perfect cook I ever saw; she captured me by the tummy." Cried the thirtyish...
Able, Rome-wise New York Timesman Herbert L. Matthews spent weeks digging out the facts in the strange and murky death of Mussolini's son-in-law, flashy Count Galeazzo Ciano (TIME, Jan. 17). Last week Matthews cabled his findings from Rome. Their gist...