Word: mussolini
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ever since the day his old schoolmate, Socialist Benito Mussolini, became a Blackshirt, 69-year-old Lawyer Adone Zoli has been one of Italy's most outspoken antiFascists. Last week, with the Duce long gone and Zoli about to win confirmation as Italy's eighth Premier, the Fascists finally got their revenge...
Zoli can claim the distinction of being one of the first in Italy to be anti-Mussolini. As a boy in the Romagna, short, roly-poly Adone Zoli took a particular dislike to one of his schoolmates, a pushy youngster from a neighboring farm, Benny Mussolini. Even after the pushy youngster became the Duce, Zoli persisted in his pub lic contempt for Mussolini's ideas, invariably had his suits made without lapel buttonholes so that he would have no place to wear the Fascist emblem. His anti-Fascist activities almost cost Zoli his life -after his 1943 arrest...
Fine Style. The wicked, 1,000-mile route that winds south from Brescia along the Adriatic littoral and then curls north across the Apennines was used by Benito Mussolini as a monument to Benito Mussolini. Having made his trains run on time, the Duce was determined to prove the quality of his roads. For Fons, 28, the race was simply a chance to prove his hard-earned skills. Short years ago the dark-skinned Spanish nobleman was known for his heavy-foot driving, the careless speed that sent his cars tumbling off the track as often as they finished...
...charge of the lay organization Serov put a bumptious, indestructible gangster named Boleslaw Piasecki. Piasecki had worked as an agent for Mussolini, later for the Gestapo; when he was picked up by the NKVD, he eagerly ratted on his associates, most of whom were promptly liquidated. But nervous Boleslaw, casting about for further life insurance, landed in Pax-officially called the Social Radical Movement of Polish Catholics. The organization had the monopoly on religious publishing, plus the manufacture and sale of all religious articles. The resulting flow of cash provided Piasecki with a luxurious villa, where he kept a Jaguar...
Died. Alice Rohe, 81, veteran spinster journalist and magazine writer, the first woman to head a foreign news bureau (United Press in Rome, 1914), the first woman (1927) to interview Mussolini after his rise to power; in Manhattan...