Word: mussolini
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...velvet jacket, filled his room with paints, brushes, canvas and easel. But the man was no artist. He was Guglielmo Emanuel, Rome correspondent of Milan's Corriere della Sera, and one of Italy's most renowned anti-fascist journalists. For years he had been in trouble with Mussolini's police; now with the Germans in power, they were looking for him again. Emanuel decided it was time for a disguise. So, at 64, the white-haired journalist took up a brush for the first time and began painting as if his life depended...
...Rome, pompous Italian Tenor Beniamino Gigli, 63, who left the Metropolitan Opera Company and the U.S. in high dudgeon in 1939 after making cooing sounds about progress under Mussolini's Fascists, announced his interest in the current political score. He will be a candidate for a seat in the new Chamber of Deputies on Alcide de Gasperi's Christian Democratic ticket in the June elections...
...democratic socialism." But where such a stand, in the case of another writer, might be trivial or tedious or pompous, Orwell made it into a passionate starting point from which to scourge all varieties of intellectual cant and hypocrisy. He denounced the Blimps who failed to see that Mussolini and Hitler were enemies of freedom, and he denounced the intellectuals who thought Stalin was any better. Much of his energy was devoted to carrying on a guerrilla campaign against the woolheaded fellow travelers who were poisoning English intellectual life...
Died. Francesco Saverio Nitti, 84, scholarly Italian elder statesman who was forced by Mussolini into a 20-year exile for his unflinching opposition to Fascism; of influenza; in Rome. The late Premier Vittorio Orlando's World War I Finance Minister, roly-poly Nitti was a Premier himself, in 1919-20. During Mussolini's time he found haven in Paris, returned home in 1945 to help guide Italy's political and economic rebirth, thereafter served in Parliament as an energetic liberal...
...peer in the U.S., and his bounce was as remarkable as his skill. He set himself no less a task than to sculpt "a plastic history of my time," and the hundreds of notables who sat for him ranged from Joseph Conrad to Frank Sinatra, from Gandhi to Mussolini. A little more than a year ago, at 68, bush-bearded Jo Davidson journeyed to Israel and found inspiration for some of his best busts. The new nation, he said, "confirmed my belief that life is eternal. It was like a phoenix rising out of the ashes...