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Died. Baron Pompeo Aloisi, 73, onetime bigwig Italian diplomat, who, as a delegate to the League of Nations, was Mussolini's chief apologist for the invasion of Ethiopia; in Rome...
Besides making the trains run on time, Mussolini also made Rome's turbulent traffic run smoothly. He prohibited the Roman pedestrian's custom of reading newspapers in the middle of the street. Once, interrupted in his meditations by a horn insistently honking in the Piazza Venezia below, Mussolini shouted an order that all "acoustic signaling" be forthwith prohibited in Rome. Romans whispered sadly that their "city of noise" had become the città del silenzio...
...under a crow's nest, which took first prize at the 1934 Carnegie International and now resides in the basement of Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum. His next was the Museum of Modern Art's Eternal City-in which a bilious, jack-in-the-box Mussolini rules over a ruined square. "I hope," says Blume fervently, "that I won't get involved in still another big picture, but I suppose I will. I'm cursed that way. When I first began painting I was satisfied with putting shapes and colors together on canvas; now I have...
...agreeing to lend the little David as a token of "friendly feelings" toward the U.S., Italy's Fine Arts Commission broke a Mussolini-enacted law against exporting Italian art treasures. Never before has a Michelangelo statue-actually carved by Michelangelo, that is-been exhibited...
Ezra Pound, godfather-emeritus of modern verse, came through in his old age with some of the best-and worst-poetry of the year. In his Pisan Cantos he ranted, as of old, about usurers, Churchill and Mussolini; but a new, touching note of sadness and humility crept into his verse...