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DIED. TIZIANO TERZANI, 65, Italian-born journalist who reported from Asia for the German newsweekly Der Spiegel and various Italian publications; of cancer; in Florence, Italy. When a fortune-teller predicted he would die in 1993, he refused to fly for a year and wrote a book about it: A Fortune-Teller Told Me: Earthbound Travels in the Far East...
...DIED. TIZIANO TERZANI, 65, best-selling author and veteran foreign correspondent for Der Speigel, who covered Vietnam, Cambodia and China in the early Deng Xiaoping era; in Florence, Italy. In his book A Fortune-Teller Told Me: Earthbound Travels in the Far East, the Italian-born Terzani detailed his adventures in 1993, when he traveled Asia by land and sea after receiving a warning from a Hong Kong mystic that he might die in an airplane crash that year...
...Japan: The Beauty of Food (Rizzoli; 175 pages; $50). Photographer Reinhart Wolf was not satisfied with recording only the creations of eminent chefs. He foraged in food shops to assemble sake glasses made of dried octopus, a squad of chocolate sumo wrestlers, a bouquet of lollipops, kaleidoscopic cookies. Angela Terzani's text provides morsels of its own. Sushi lovers may be abashed to learn that they have not exactly touched the ancient soul of Japan: sushi was not a hit there until the 19th century...
...assorted panaceas but the imbroglios of its chief brought the Khaki Shirts its notoriety. Last July when Art Smith was holding a meeting in New York's Queens, antiFascists demonstrated against him and one of them was killed. Before a grand jury Smith accused one Athos Terzani of the killing. Terzani was tried for murder and acquitted before one of Smith's followers, who had paid $2 to be made a captain, confessed the killing. Last week the Khaki Shirts were much disrupted: General Smith, having been convicted of perjury in falsely accusing Terzani, was sentenced...
Married. Athos Terzani, 31, Manhattan taxi driver and antiFascist; and one Tillie Golia; in Irving Plaza Hall, Manhattan. Best man: Norman Thomas, No. 1 U. S. Socialist. Wedding guests: some 600 Socialists, Communists, anarchists, syndicalists, antiFascists. Day before Terzani had been acquitted of fatally shooting a friend at a riotous meeting of the Khaki Shirts of America (Fascist) last July...