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...retreat was resumed, in somewhat better order. Seven Allied columns went after them, en route for the next major Allied objectives. One was Ancona, one of the finest ports on the Adriatic, where ships to Dalmatia and Yugoslavia could find good harbor. Another was the Tyrrhenian port of Leghorn, already echoing to German demolition charges...
...Allies move into southern Europe, no part of Germany need be spared. North Italian airdromes, bombed last week, may soon be bases for the bombing of Germany. Already R.A.F. Lancasters are shuttling from Britain to North Africa and back (they bombed Friedrichshafen in southern Germany last month, Bologna and Leghorn in northern Italy last week). From north & south, Allied air power is mounting...
...Born in Leghorn, Athos Menaboni was sent to study at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Florence. He made his way to the U.S. as oiler on a freighter, spent several years decorating wax candles and painting posters in Manhattan's Greenwich Village. In the '20s he moved to Atlanta, met and married a girl from Rome (Ga.), started painting murals. When Tobacco Millionaire Dick Reynolds hired him to decorate a mansion on Sapelo Island, Ga., Painter Menaboni did a series of murals in which some of Reynolds' best friends appeared with the bodies of jungle...
...Manila went 238 gilt jeweled watches (value: $3,022), 46 gold jeweled watches (value: $2,504), serum blood grouping, parts for pyrometer equipment, examination papers, 826 feet of motion-picture film, fountain pens and pencils, TIME magazine, shoe-machine awls and needles, Leghorn hatching eggs (to improve the island strain), two surgical stockings, orchids, many another item...
Last week from hat-famed Leghorn came an abrupt style switch, a harsh pull-'em-down order. Snarled Telegrafo, newspaper of Count Galeazzo Ciano, breeches-wearing husband of pants-wearing (TIME, July 14) Edda Mussolini...