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Badoglio. Of these Army heads, far the ablest and most experienced is Pietro Giuseppe Vittorio Luigi Badoglio, 68, Senator, Marquis of Sabotino, Duke of Addis Ababa. He has fought in all Italian wars since Emperor Menelek of Abyssinia whipped the Italians in Eritrea in 1896 and he, a lieutenant of artillery, helped save the town of Adigrat. He was credited with planning the victory of Zanzur in 1911, which wrested Libya from Turkey. His capture of Mt. Sabotino from the Austrians in 1916 led to the victory at Gorizia and won Colonel Badoglio his generalship. His Second Army...
Last week Luigi Cardinal Lavitrano, Archbishop of Palermo (Sicily), issued a pastoral letter. Chiding was His Eminence's tone. He cited statistics showing that "66% of the Italians do not hear Mass on religious holidays, and only 12% of Italian men receive Holy Communion on Easter...
Last week in Boston, the 280-lb. Angel took on his first comer, Luigi Bacigalupi, 275-lbs. ringside. In the Boston Arena, 7,000 wrestling fans (twice the usual number) stood on their chairs as the Angel trod up the aisle. In the ring, Bacigalupi whanged the Angel's cowcatcher jaw with a barrage of forearm wallops. The Angel only growled, waded in, got a headlock, a full nelson, a head scissors, an armlock, and then the hold the fans were waiting for -his touted bear hug. He simply crooked his cordwood arms around Luigi's vast circumference...
...Miler Glenn Cunningham: an indoor, handicap mile in which he conceded up to 40 yards to seven opponents; time 4:19.6; in Manhattan. Famed Miler Luigi Beccali refused his 15-yard handicap, started from scratch, failed to place. Next night, on the radio, Glenn said he would retire after this season...
...Veteran Miler Gene Venzke, 31; the first important indoor mile of the season; in 4:13.1, against the pick of U. S. milers: Glenn Cunningham, Chuck Fenske, Wayne Rideout, Archie San Romani, Luigi Beccali; in Boston. Eight years ago Venzke ran a 4:10 in Manhattan for a world's indoor record, for a time stayed out in front, but finally gave way to Bill Bonthron, Cunningham, others. For last week's meet, Boston meetmakers tried to shunt him into the half-mile, but Venzke said the mile or no go. In the running he trailed for seven...