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...fencing never become popular in the U.S.? Aldo Nadi, world fencing champion, has brooded over that poser ever since he arrived in the U.S. to teach the sport eight years ago. His conclusion: Americans consider fencing sissy...
...Aldo Nadi, 44, is a handsome, steel whip of a man, so slim (6 ft, 128 lb.) that on the fencing strip he bears a strong resemblance to his weapon. Some fencers consider him the greatest swordsman who ever lived. The son of a famous Italian Maître d'Armes, Aldo began fencing at four, won his first title at twelve, is acknowledged the world's finest foilsman...
Retreat from Beauty. When Nadi came to the U.S. in 1935, society ladies mobbed him. Horrified at the flaccid clumsiness of some of his overstuffed clients at Elizabeth Arden's beauty salon, where he was Director of Fencing, Aldo soon quit to devote himself to serious fencers and children, his favorite pupils...
...fencers, chiefly concentrated in three fencing capitals (New York City, Los Angeles, San Francisco) and on college campuses. Just now they are handicapped by a shortage of weapons. But the major obstacle to fencing's popularity in the U.S. is a lack of teachers. This, in Aldo Nadi's opinion, is a great pity, for he believes there is no human ill that fencing can not cure...
...best French fencers, Louis Merignac excepted (were) left-handed." (Italian Aldo is right-handed...