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Benito Mussolini left the hospital, went back to the field, and stared for a time at the scene of the crash. Then he returned to the bedside and sat there all night. The others quietly joined him: Donna Rachele, his own wife, a strong woman who opposed Bruno's flying; Vittorio, not such a good flyer, only a lieutenant while Bruno, nearly two years his junior, was a captain; Edda Ciano, the girl, who had very nearly been killed by British flyers during the Balkan fight. Bruno's pretty wife Gina was also there. The other Mussolinis-Anna...
...days, hard-eyed, black-mustached, hard-driving tycoons (who enjoyed such titles as "the Wolf of Wall Street," "the Pirate," "the Robber Baron," "the Plunger" or "the Looter of the Erie") were generally terrorized by their little women, who in mortal rivalry built great houses which, after the next crash, became known as Somebody's Folly...
...Field (Texas) were trying their P-40 wings. At week's end, there were 39: fog-trapped Lieut. Robert E. Hetrick of Dimondale, Mich, tried to nose into a Long Island potato patch, overshot. Apparently his motor failed when he tried to recover, and he died in the crash...
Best long-distance answer is pipelines. But each time oilmen push pipelines they crash head on with railroad lobbies. Of the four new pipelines proposed, only one-a 250-mile line between Portland, Me. and Montreal-was under unimpeded construction last week. Congress still stewed over the Cole Bill (granting rights of way to pipelines). If it passes despite railroad opposition, and new pipelines are laid at once, they will still carry no oil before next spring...
...Born Philip Manwaring, he was adopted by his mother's second husband, transportation Tycoon Morton F. Plant, who left him $15,000,000. Divorce from Cinemactress Constance Bennett cost him a $1,000,000 settlement, divorce from Big Game Huntress Edna Dunham a fifth as much, an auto crash with Showgirl Helene Jesmer $75,000. His third wife, ex-Showgirl Marjorie King, survives as his widow...