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...from the azure waters of Capri last week bald, cerebral British Foreign Secretary Sir John Simon rose on the wings of an Italian seaplane piloted by Ace Major Attilio Biseo, veteran of the Balbo flight to Chicago. Beside Sir John sat the Duke of San Vito, a secretary in Il Duce's Foreign Office. To discuss Dictator Mussolini's bold plan to "reform" the League of Nations (TIME, Dec. 18) Sir John had come from London, pausing to enjoy the holidays at Capri before getting to business...
...Council rose amid cheers for II Duce's kind of Capitalism. Next day he appointed his 21-year-old nephew, Vito Mussolini, to be editor and general manager of the Mussolini family newspaper II Popolo d'Italia of Milan, founded by Uncle Benito and edited after he became Premier by his late brother Arnaldo, Vito's father. Last week the first striking editorial to appear under Editor Vito's regime was also all about Capitalism-about the recognition by what II Popolo called the "ultra-Capitalistic" Roosevelt Administration of the Soviet Union...
...competitors are: G. H. Acheson '33, E. C. Allen '35, E. H. Angert '35, H. L. Babbitt '34, R. S. Barnes '35, D. J. Boorstin '34, Robert Breckinridge '34, Lincoln Bryant '33, Jack Chartoff '35, J. C. Cort '35, A. J. De Vito '33, Kenneth Di Menna '34, W. E. Esber '33, A. B. Gardiner '33, J. B. Gilbert '33, E. P. Gordon '33, George Gore...
Christopher Theophilus ("Jim Londos"), who considers himself the world's champion wrestler and has a gold belt to prove it, last week advanced across a Manhattan ring and seized the left arm of Joe De Vito, a rubbery Italian with a pork-barrel torso and a door-knob ear. He gave the arm a vicious twist. De Vito, grunting with unreasonable surprise, retaliated by trying to pluck off one of Londos's toes. For 21 min. 42 sec. the two groveled, grunted, snorted, glowered, slapped, twisted and oozed. Once De Vito bowled over Londos with a butt...
...Each is controlled by a promoter who sees to it that his best performers do not risk prestige or popularity by wrestling against able members of a rival group. Each has a claimant to the world's championship, several more or less high-grade contenders for it. De Vito hitherto has belonged to a group controlled by Paul Bowser, which operates in Boston and the Midwest. The Bowser group also includes Gus Sonnenberg, Jack Sherry, Don George, Henri De Glane (champion). Londos is champion for the most profitable of the three groups, operated by Promoter Jack Curley in Manhattan...