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Italy. "The boastful Mussolini has crumpled already. He is now but a lackey and a serf, the merest utensil of his master's will...
...fragile, grey-haired, who now edits the magazine from her suite in the Waldorf-Astoria. In her 40-year career, "Missy" Meloney has been editor of Everybody's, Delineator, the New York Herald Tribune Sunday Magazine, organizer of the Herald Tribune Forum, and once in three interviews with Mussolini got him to answer eleven out of 20 questions. She declares with flashing defiance: "I have been lame since 15, and had a bad lung since 17 and have done the work of three men ever since." Her salary is $40,000 a year...
...Julius Caesar, Lord Byron, Columbus, Socrates, Lincoln, Mussolini, P. T. Barnum, Michelangelo, Clark Gable, et al. *To date, Snow White (cost: $1,300,000) has grossed a healthy $7,157,000; Pinocchio is $300,000 shy of its $2,500,000 investment; The Reluctant Dragon has earned a little more than a third of its $686,000 production cost; Fantasia, scheduled for general release soon, is within $500,000 of paying for itself...
...Benito Mussolini took up flexing his 58-year-old muscles in public again. Italy's official news service, Stefani, let everybody know he had joined some infantrymen and "marched with them several miles on foot...
...Benito Mussolini's punch-drunk Navy it was a bitter week. Not 24 hours earlier the Admiralty had announced the torpedoing of still another Italian cruiser by a British submarine. London estimated that the Italians have left only ten or eleven of the 43 cruisers built or building at the war's beginning. Cracked New York Timesman David Anderson from London: "Some persons here are wondering now if the Italians have anything afloat that is a match for a British destroyer...