Word: journalists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...TIME affirms that before 1943, I was "the Duce's tame intellectual, a pet journalist of Fascism . . ." If this perhaps were true, it would be true only until 1931, when I revolted against Fascism . . . From 1931 until the fall of Mussolini in 1943, I was arrested eleven times. In 1933, I was placed in prison and then sentenced to five years on the island concentration camp of Lipari. Freed in 1938, I still remained under police control and was put in prison as a preventive measure every time a Nazi chief visited Rome. In 1939, being sent to Ethiopia...
...became a great friend of Mussolini, tried to keep Italy from joining the Axis. In 1937 he was plunged into a diplomatic scandal when, as he was about to board a train at Paris' Gare du Nord, he was shot in the groin by a French journalist named Madeleine de Fontanges, who claimed that he had ruined her romance with "My Benito" by advising II Duce...
Before 1943, he was the Duce's tame intellectual, a pet journalist of Fascism, who, as special correspondent for Milan's Corriere delta Sera, was fed rich scoops of news on the silver spoon of favoritism. When the war began to turn against the Axis, so did Malaparte's pen. He was punished with brief confinement in a Rome prison, then allowed to retire to a Capri villa; there he was liberated by the Allied forces. Malaparte promptly put all his inside information about high Fascist circles at the disposal of the Allied command, and was rewarded...
...journalist who accompanied Chaney on his trip to China wrote that the Metasequoia is a remote ancestor of California's giant redwoods...
...actively evil, but merely weak, his wife has retreated into a cocoon of neuroses. His brother-in-law is a shiftless drunk who pretends he can write, and his journalist daughter is a loveless prig. Sands's first homosexual buddy, a stage designer, has left him for a theatrical producer. His second, a young bookshop manager, is in the clutch of a possessive mother. Bernard Sands feels superior to the shoddy lot until he sees a fellow homosexual dragged away by the police-and suddenly feels ready to side with the law and "join the hounds in the kill...