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...dictator lay dead in a square in Milan, his head on the breast of his dead mistress, his body cursed and spat upon...
...tested officers, Hap Arnold had no trouble finding a successor for Ira Eaker as head of the Mediterranean Allied Air Force. His choice: husky, bald-headed Lieut. General John K. (Uncle Joe) Cannon, whose Twelfth Air Force in Italy had blasted the way for Allied forces from Salerno to Milan...
Fate knocked at the door last week for Europe's two fascist dictators. Mussolini, shot in the back and through the head by his partisan executioners, lay dead in Milan (see below). Adolf Hitler had been buried, dead or alive, in the rubble of his collapsing Third Reich. Whether or not he had suffered a cerebral hemorrhage (as reported from Stockholm), or had "fallen in his command post at the Reich chancellery" (as reported by the Hamburg radio, which said that he had been succeeded as Führer by Grand Admiral Karl Doenitz), or was a prisoner...
Ambassador Tarchiani, 59, was once one of Italy's great journalists: managing editor of Milan's Corriere della Sera. In 1925, at the height of his career, when Mussolini muzzled the press, he went into exile. After 15 years in Paris, writing anti-Fascist pamphlets, aiding in the escape of other antiFascists from Italy, he came to the U.S. Along with Count Carlo Sforza, he was one of the first of the exiles to go back to Italy after the Allied invasion...
Puccini: The Heart of La Bohème (Orchestra of Milan's La Scala Opera, Umberto Berrettoni conducting, with Beniamino Gigli, Licia Albanese and others; Victor; 10 sides). An anthology containing practically all the brightest blossoms of Puccini's most popular opera, selected from Victor's previously released complete recording. The cast is brilliant, the singing rich in the best garlicky Italian tradition. Recording: good...