Word: mussolini
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...social season-Seville in April, Madrid in May and June, San Sebastian in July and August (then back to the Madrid black market for the drab winter months). Now they jam the Palace and Chicote bars, their ranks reinforced by distinguished foreign refugees such as the Petacci family of Mussolini's late mistress, Clara...
...even more excited by the treat he has in store for his 71-year-old uncle, with whom he lives in Venice. In Naples next fall, Manno hopes to conduct the first Italian performance in more than 20 years of Uncle Ermanno's The Jewels of the Madonna. Mussolini had banned it because, he said, its story of Neopolitan hoodlumism gave Italy a bad name...
...When Winner first met Dario in 1925 he was reminded of Count Keyserling's remark about the women of Italy-that as young girls they dream of being grandmothers. Dario, brilliant and ambitious, dreamt of being an ambassador, and was but a few rungs from the top of Mussolini's ladder when it fell in 1943. Unlike most of the climbers, however, he was not hurt. A daring young man, he dived for an A.M.G. life net, later sported a U.S. uniform while his old pals were marched off to jail. When the Americans moved out, Dario became...
...have made no progress since their secession (TIME, Jan. 20). The one anti-Communist party which has done relatively well is Gian, nini's nee-Fascist Common Man movement, which appeals to many disillusioned Christian Democrats. It points up the obvious but disastrous desire (which helped Hitler and Mussolini to power) to fight Communism with typical totalitarian methods...
...Rome, the family of Tenor Beniamino Gigli (who admired the way Mussolini bossed Italy) got anonymous threats by phone and mail. Tenor Gigli, who recently testified in court against some Roman gangsters, is now singing in Switzerland. When he gets home, the threats said, he will be knocked...