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With Chief of Staff of the Air Force General Francesco Pricolo, Benito Mussolini flew at once to Pisa. There, being Duce as well as padre, he marched in stately review, head high, past the pilots and ground crews of San Giusto. Then he went to Santa Chiara Hospital, and stood a long time beside the boy's body...
...long; like the mutilations of the body, those of the soul are irreparable." One morning last week Benito Mussolini, whose soul has lately been scarred almost beyond recognition, was at his desk in Rome. A few minutes after 10 o'clock, the telephone rang. San Giusto Airport, Pisa. An accident. Three killed, five injured. And one of the dead was Benito Mussolini's second boy Bruno; Bruno, the brown one, the good flyer...
...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...
Died. Bruno Mussolini, 23; in a bomber crash near Pisa...
Following nights, the Met noodled through a routine Walküre, a passable Madame Butterfly. Then it presented Samson and Delilah, with its first U. S.GALLERY-GOERS AT THE MET Also present: orchids and diamonds, born temptress in 22 years: slim, dark Risë (rhymes with Pisa) Stevens, 27, of The Bronx. Contralto Stevens proved a notable addition to the Met's strippers (who had heretofore included Sopranos Helen Jepson and Lily Pons) and in the seduction scene gave Samson (barrel-shaped Tenor René Maison) quite a going-over. But critics doubted that the Stevens pleasing midriff...