Word: mussolini
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...Sears, the daughter of another socially impeccable Boston family, and became a reporter for the Boston Transcript, the New York Herald Tribune (and a stringer correspondent for TIME). Among his assignments: covering the conventions of 1924, 1928 and 1932, accompanying Calvin Coolidge's pacification expedition to Nicaragua, interviewing Mussolini. After a four-year warmup in the state legislature, Cabot Lodge was ready in 1936 to try for a national political career, and although his Democratic opponent for the Senate, the late James Michael Curley, belittled his youth and called him "Little Boy Blue," Lodge, at 34, won an easy...
...Gentle Alec's unexpected loss of the family's "safe" Lanarkshire seat in the 1945 Labor landslide election. In his 31 years in politics, Home served as Neville Chamberlain's parliamentary private secretary (accompanying Chamberlain to Munich in 1938 and riding with him behind Hitler and Mussolini through cheering Nazi crowds). After succeeding to the earldom in 1951 and taking his seat in the House of Lords he served as Scottish Secretary and later as Commonwealth Secretary and leader of the House of Lords...
...born in Codroipo, a sun-drenched town of 2,938 just 15 miles from Venice. For generations his family had been turning out sculptures to adorn the great villas and palazzi. Young Louis seemed destined to follow the tradition. But when he was 18, he became disgusted with Mussolini's Italy, set out for Canada and then the U.S. He worked as a house painter, as an interpreter at Manhattan's Pennsylvania Hotel, then as a waiter while he studied art under the great realist John Sloan. In time, such museums as the Metropolitan, the Whitney...
...actors, British and American, like their predecessors, are involved in the attempts of their age to press Shakespeare into a contemporary mold. Orson Welles dressed his Caesar in quasi-Fascist uniform, and Olivier's mother-possessed, mob-envenomed Coriolanus ended hanging head downward, like the dead, degraded Mussolini. Moscow has staged Hamlet as an army plot against the King, with Ophelia a court whore who played the mad scene drunk. In Manhattan a group of feminists staged an all-female Lear, and a Polish actor played Shylock as a fat, wisecracking Broadway type. At Stratford, Ont., Tyrone Guthrie mounted...
...moat, and Leonardo da Vinci's faded master piece, The Last Supper, is slowly peeling on the wall of the refectory of Santa Maria delle Grazie. The curious tourist will have a difficult time finding a notorious wartime monument: the gasoline station where the battered bodies of Benito Mussolini and his brunette mistress, Claretta Petacci, dangled by the heels. Political passion is not a common Milanese trait, and few like to recall that lynching...