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...Jews who have entered Italy since the War. Eager to please the Dictator, many Italian employers have been firing Jews, many Jews have fearfully resigned important posts. Last week it was learned that the brilliant Jewish correspondent, Alberto Moravia, after being fired by the People's Gazette of Turin, wrote directly to Premier Mussolini, asking if the Dictator had ever issued orders for Jewish journalists to be booted from their jobs. Promptly the Premier gave the Turin Gazette's editor a wigging, and rehired was Meritorious Jew Moravia...
...Philadelphia, where Stokowski has his orchestra, friends confidently stated that the marriage would take place in Turin between March 15 and 17. Stoky, they said, had made his plans known in a week's end telephone call to his agent...
...Panay incident, Jim Marshall was hit in the shoulder, leaped onto a Standard Oil tanker which nosed alongside the gunboat, got ashore with the aid of a U. S. seaman and was taken to Wuhu by friendly Japanese. Less fortunately, Sandro Sandri of the Turin Stampa died next day of a horribly painful stomach wound. Other foreign correspondent to die during the hostilities was Pembroke Stephens, crackman from the London Telegraph. He was machine-gunned while watching the siege of Shanghai from a water tower in the French Concession. Two New York Timesmen, Hallett Abend and Anthony James Billingham, were...
...plenty of opportunity to arrive at a contrary opinion in concentration camps!" In Italy's present production spurt toward rearmament, Labor's Cianetti dashes incessantly about the kingdom, addressing workers' meetings, hearing grievances and badgering big Italian employers like the Agnelli ("Ford of Italy") family in Turin whose members huff at mention of his name...
...truly royal train; a small royal palace traveling at a mile a minute" is the proud description of King Vittorio Emanuele's train by its stiff-necked, arrogantly bourgeois builder, Tycoon Giovanni Agnelli, Senator of the Realm and President of FIAT (Italian Automotive Works of Turin). Inconspicuous on each coach is the symbol RIC ("workable over all European railway lines"). This means three separate braking systems, two distinct electric lighting systems and alarms so ingeniously concealed and blended with the palace decor that a stranger would be quite unable to discover how to stop the palace-train...