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...Benito Mussolini left the hospital, went back to the field, and stared for a time at the scene of the crash. Then he returned to the bedside and sat there all night. The others quietly joined him: Donna Rachele, his own wife, a strong woman who opposed Bruno's flying; Vittorio, not such a good flyer, only a lieutenant while Bruno, nearly two years his junior, was a captain; Edda Ciano, the girl, who had very nearly been killed by British flyers during the Balkan fight. Bruno's pretty wife Gina was also there. The other Mussolinis-Anna...
...morning came the Pope's blessing on this agnostic ex-Socialist father and a brief service for the son. Then the coffin, buried pro tempore under wreaths, was taken off to be buried under the soil of Predappio, on one of the little Romagna hillsides where the Mussolinis, the makers of muslin, had always lived. But before he left Pisa, Benito Mussolini went to talk with the five injured survivors. One unwittingly asked how Bruno...
...Bruno," said Benito Mussolini, who hates death, "is quite well. He is no longer in danger...
Last fall, in order to save cloth, Italy's Supreme Council of Autarchy (commission on self-sufficiency, headed by self-sufficient Benito Mussolini) urged Italian manhood to get out of long pants, get into shorts. Lest Italian manhood think them effeminate, newspapers insisted shorts were "not only hygienic but masculine and patriotic...
Last week from hat-famed Leghorn came an abrupt style switch, a harsh pull-'em-down order. Snarled Telegrafo, newspaper of Count Galeazzo Ciano, breeches-wearing husband of pants-wearing (TIME, July 14) Edda Mussolini...