Word: mussolini
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...like him--a grave simple child...playing with the most expensive toys." Others found little to like or admire about the man. But Nasaw tells his story with such nuance and understanding that the reader never fully loses sympathy, even when the Chief was paying Hitler and Mussolini to write for his papers, and Hearst and his columnists were smearing innocent people...
...G.I.s blown to bits by 16-in. mortar shells in Tarawa; a Japanese woman throwing her baby and then herself off a cliff in Saipan rather than surrender; the frozen bodies of American G.I.s massacred by German SS in the Ardennes Forest; the beaten carcass of Italian dictator Benito Mussolini hanging by his heels in a square in Milan; and, of course, the emaciated corpses of slaughtered Jews piled up like cords of wood at Dachau...
DIED. IOANNA, 92, Bulgarian queen; in Estoril, Portugal. Her marriage to King Boris III was blessed by Mussolini, and her husband was rumored to have been poisoned by Hitler. She helped many Jews escape the Nazis, and was exiled in 1946 when communists dissolved the monarchy...
...that beam happily for once, step off the streets and into the lead of Blitzstein's play. A giddy socialite (Vanessa Redgrave) departs from the conservative wishes of her husband, publishing giant William Randolph Hearst, to join the theatrical cause. Italian journalist Margherita Sarfatti (Susan Sarandon) tries to make Mussolini's fascism palatable to American industrialists through artistic exchange...