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...fluffy lion cub crouched, speed-stunned in Signer Mussolini's lap as the Dictator stepped upon the throttle of his racing car and sped toward Rome. That was in 1923. Provincial admirers had bestowed the beast. As she grew into a sleek young lioness, the Duce, intrigued, named her Italia Bella. He is wont to enter her iron barred cage crooning "Italia Mia, . . ." and only twice has she scratched him (TIME, July 12). Recently her sleek flanks grew pendulous. The Fascist press began exultantly to refer to her as Sultana, Italia, and she brought forth three cubs...
Ralph Pulitzer, editor* of the New York World (Democratic Manhattan daily): "I returned to the U. S. with my brother Herbert from a five-months' hunting trip in Africa, where I shot two lions, a lioness, a kudu (spiral-horned ante- lope), a wart hog, a water buffalo, a rhinoceros, many another quad- ruped and some birds. My shots killed all these creatures except the rhinoceros, whose neck my bullet entered, lacerating the beast to charging fury. My guide checked it with an accurate shot. I told newsgatherers that I had become so fond of African sport I would...
...less resourceful, they are like to smart for their lack of vigor. . . . At present the bombs of Mussolini's youth find their counterpart in dangers which he deliberately courts, as though to keep his nerves steeled against Fate. When a group of admirers presented him with a lioness cub they supposed he would scarcely venture to play with her after a few months. To the despair of his guards Signor Mussolini has become so attached to the now full-grown lioness that he insists on entering her cage for an occasional frolic. When he calls: "Italia! Italia Bella...
...almost a year Mussolini's physicians have forbidden him his favorite exercise: a daily half-hour ride' on a horse as mettlesome as his pet lioness, Italia Bella...
...Incidentally the name given by the Premier to his pet lioness...