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...Primo ("Old Satch") Carnera, hulking, ham-handed onetime world's heavyweight boxing champion (1933), was reported arrested in northern Italy, then freed under close Gestapo surveillance. U.S. sports fans raised their eyebrows at the story, which made out hapless Primo an agile hero: Mrs. Carnera had made some anti-Nazi remarks which resulted in a barroom brawl, which resulted in some flattened-out Germans...
...Primo ("Old Satchelfoot") Carnera has been reported wounded in action. He has been reported shot for treason by the Fascists. But last week the former world's heavyweight champion was reported gloriously alive, the victim of the most ignominious defeat in his ponderous career...
Killed in Action. Army Air Forces Captain Jefferson Davis Dickson, 47, one-time "Tex Rickard of Europe" who won fame and fortune when he built big, bumbling Primo Camera into an international attraction; in an air battle over France last July (not announced until last week...
...gaudy old Galleria Umberto Primo was bright with flags: seven Russian, one American, no British and a spate of Italian with the arms of the House of Savoy removed. Three of Italy's antiroyalist parties-Communists, Socialists and Carlo Sforza's Actionists-brought out some 7,000 cheering, rain-soaked Neapolitans to boo Badoglio and the King, shout fiercely for a republic. The biggest meeting so far permitted by the Allies, it was a Neapolitan answer to Churchill's endorsement of their unwanted government.* The show ended with a ragged Partisan from Marshal Tito on stage, shouting...
Dilemma and End? One of Franco's several mistakes during his rebellion was not military but political. Franco apparently reasoned that one reason for the failure of Primo de Rivera's earlier military dictatorship was that the government lacked any real popular basis. To cure that, while the war was still in progress he adopted the Falange Party, approved by Hitler and Mussolini...