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Eight months ago (TIME, Nov. 16) 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...
...gentle squeeze of the trigger and the great Fascist would topple headforemost from the balcony. Perhaps the House of Savoy would fall with him. Amid the antiFascist revolution which would spring up, anything might happen. Even as these thoughts coursed through the mind of onetime Socialist Deputy Tito Zaniboni, something happened with a vengeance. Fascist police burst in his door, collared him, took his rifle away, trundled him off to jail...
...powerful motor car loaded with extra gasoline tins, which mysteriously appeared in an alley behind the hotel. When the police were informed of these doings, they responded with grim enigmatic smiles. Later they declared that the details of the plot had been known to Signer Mussolini for weeks; that Tito Zaniboni and General Capello had long been carefully shadowed...
Modern Italian Art. "Italian Art has grown rapidly in importance. . . . Not only will Italy be represented by such of its more widely known men as Tito and Mancini, but by others of the younger school . . . Casorati and Carona . . . and Romagnoli, who won the second prize at the Carnegie Institute last year...
...went on to quote Victor Maurel, famed French baritone, who said that Verdi's Falstaff "screams for English"; Tito Ricordi, Milanese music publisher, who said that English, next to Italian, was the most "singable" of all tongues; Richard Wagner, who said that he wished his works to be given in English in all English-speaking countries...