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...Lieut. General Achille Starace, Secretary of the Fascist Party, who for eight years has stood close enough behind Benito Mussolini to tickle his shoulder blades with a stiletto. With sense of humor zero and self-confidence unlimited, Fascist Starace earned the nickname "Pantherman" by feats of physique-jumping a horse over a car, pole vaulting, diving over parallel bars, plunging through rings of fire. In his gaudy office, where he is protected by an always-loaded, pearl-handled revolver and by a solid gold Virgin, he has thought up many a mystic fetish, many a fiendish thuggery. He abolished...
...suggested that he must have been drugged before the fight in which he was a brave loser to Negro Joe Louis last June, the Italian Boxing Federation ordered him to stop talking about the bout. When Carnera applied for a passport to return to the U. S.. Achille ("Pantherman") Starace, Secretary General of the Fascist Party, ordered it canceled. Reason: "Carnera's showing is a dishonor to Fascist sport...
That he will some day break his neck is the thought of most people who confer with lean, pantherlike Secretary Achille Starace of the Fascist Party in his startling office in Rome. All about are enlarged snapshots of the Pantherman in dynamic feats of prowess: Starace jumping his horse over his racing car; Starace pole-vaulting; Starace in a soaring leap across parallel bars; Starace motorcycling at 140 kilometers per hour. Up went Starace last week to Sestrieres, swank yet popular priced winter resort. There he went snugly to bed. got up early next morning, started zipping down...
...Milan last week, with Achilles ("Pantherman") Starace, No. 2 Fascist and Party Secretary, in his retinue, sped Head-of-the-State Benito Mussolini to build up the morale of that industrial region where bitter unemployment persists. En route Il Duce cajoled Italian peasants at their harvesting, speaking from a truck, a threshing machine, a motorcar, a platform built like the prow of a ship, and from a Hitler-taunting replica of the ox-drawn battle carts with which the Lombard League in the 12th Century repulsed Teutonic Frederick Barbarossa...
...august party sped from Milan to Cremona, Pantherman Starace told young men who prayed for jobs: ''Remember that Fascism promises you neither honors nor jobs nor profits, but only duty and combat...
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