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John Hays Hammond Jr., famed inventor: "For some weeks past, I have been in Rome, during which time I saw Premier Mussolini, presented him with a five kilowatt broadcasting outfit of the selective wave or narrowcasting type. . . . Last week, in my apartment in Palazzo Massimi, I was lighting an old-fashioned gas water-heater, when it exploded, severely burning my face, eyebrows and hair. Although I am suffering considerable pain, I hope to be completely recovered in two weeks...
...Premier, continuing to his office in the Palazzo Chigi, sat down unemotionally at a typewriter and personally typed off his deposition of facts concerning the attempted crime for the police. To newsgatherers who sought him he said: "Ha! For once you gentlemen have 'copy' enough? Tell foreigners who take an interest in me and all Italians abroad, that bombs explode, but Mussolini tranquilly remains at his post, facing any danger, because this is his precise duty...
...silvery blimp dipped. A Roman rabble surged and roared. Four plumed steeds cavorted proudly, their path cleared by resplendent policemen. At the Palazzo Chigi out of a triumphal oldtime open coach, stepped General of the Air Umberto Nobile (TIME, Aug. 2, SCIENCE), to be saluted and embraced in person by his swart Excellency, Benito Mussolini. Shortly, master and man appeared on the Chigi balcony, where Mussolini's jowls became suffused with blood, his muscular throat thick with emotion...
...onetime Socialist deputy Tito Zaniboni was pounced upon by Roman policemen as he peeped through the telescopic sights of a rifle. For hours thousands of Fascists howled for Zaniboni's blood. Then Signor Mussolini?well knowing that the rifle had been trained upon a balcony of the Palazzo Chigi whence he had been scheduled to speak?stepped dramatically upon that balcony and cried: "Fascists, No Revenge! You will obey! You will take no revenge upon Zaniboni, because I wish...
...five hours 30,000 Fascists stood waiting in the Piazza Ferrari, the largest square in Genoa, to hear Signer Mussolini. He came, stirred them to frenzy, departed, slept for the night in the Palazzo Ducale, once the Palace of the Doges...