Word: mussolinis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Nondescript. If Pierre Poujade belongs in the category of demagogues or dictators, he is a strange specimen. He exudes none of the magniloquence of a Mussolini, the cold power of a Stalin, the megalomania of a Hitler. Instead, there is an engaging air of café table simplicity about him. Even his features are nondescript and the despair of caricaturists. "Look me in the eyes, and you will see yourself," he cries to his listeners...
Political Career: After the war, he became a teacher of Italian at a technical school, helped found Don Luigi Sturzo's Popular Party (forerunner of the Christian Democrats). Elected to Parliament in 1919, he served briefly in Mussolini's first government, but when Mussolini began to show his iron hand, Gronchi resigned. Barred from teaching because he refused to take the Fascist oath of allegiance, he became a salesman, first of neckties, then of American-made paints, worked his way up and ended as owner of a prosperous synthetic-varnish factory...
...that he vowed never to play in Germany again, and never has. Asked what countries he had not visited in the last 40 years, he once named Tibet, because it is too high, and Germany, because it is too low. In 1938 he returned a decoration awarded him by Mussolini with a telegram signed "Artur Rubinstein, Jewish pianist...
...Benito Mussolini used to spend odd hours sawing on a fiddle and lamenting the dictator's fate that kept him from becoming "a great concert violinist." This week one of the hottest jazz pianists in a land of few jazz piano players, a musician billed as Romano Full, will make his public debut with a quintet at San Remo's International Jazz Festival. His full name: Romano Mussolini, 28, Il Duce's youngest son. Unlike his father, who could read music, Romano is musically illiterate but plays by ear better than Il Duce did by note. Romano...
...Right Man. When Mussolini's legions rolled into Greece in 1940, Greek Chief of Staff Papagos in a black leather, ankle-length coat, cigarette in hand, went to the snowbound front to deploy his units. To the delight of the democratic world, his small, tough army whipped the Italians. Hitler delayed his attack on the U.S.S.R. and sent crack divisions to Mussolini's rescue; for three weeks Papagos and his evzones fought the Germans until overwhelming odds made him end the battle "to prevent Greece from being devastated." The Germans sent him to a VIP military prison...