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What galled unofficial Italian observers most about Spain's White Book was not the evidence of Italian intervention, but the startling evidence of cowardice and continued poor morale in the ranks of Italian volunteers. Wrote the Italian volunteers' divisional commander. General Mancini, on March 11: "Commanders must maintain their men in the highest state of exaltation. . . . This will be easy if they are talked to frequently without ever omitting on any subject a political allusion and always evoking in the soldiers' minds II Duce...
...March 16, General Mancini issued a long order on discipline...
...Yard with letters of advice and suggestion, but none contained anything really worth while. Plodding police work proved the No. 2 corpse to be that of 42-year-old Dancer Violette Kaye who had been living with a 26-year-old wavy-haired ne'er-do-well Toni Mancini, "The Dancing Waiter." He was indicted for her murder, tried, acquitted...
Leverett emerged victorious over Dunster, and Lowell defeated Kirkland in House Baseball games yesterday. The rabbits were aided by the expert pitching of Mancini, who held Dunster to six hits, and hit a home run in his own turn at the plate. The final score was 12-11. In the other game the bellboys trounced Kirkland to the tune of 16 to 6. The outstanding feature of this tilt was a circuit swat by Fox of Kirkland...
...mistress at a time Nell was apparently not jealous. She made the most of the princely presents he gave her: a house in Pall Mall, a generous allowance, two sons. The King found her good company and never stayed away for long. Her two principal rivals were Italian Hortense Mancini, French Louise de Quérouailles. With Louise, an aristocrat who constantly tried to come the great lady over her, Nell never hit it off very well: when it came to backchat Louise was no match for her. Once Nell's coach was held up in Oxford...