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...power of the Duce. Before Starace, many an old-time Fascist had been relegated to oblivion or death: Hero Italo Balbo to the Governor Generalship of Libya and then to mysterious death in his airplane; Soldiers Pietro Badoglio and Rodolfo Graziani to retirement; Loudmouthpiece Roberto Farinacci to an unknown fate in Albania. Each of these men possessed great influence over some segment of the Italian people, from royalty to hoi polloi. With the purging of Starace, Benito Mussolini had cut himself even more adrift from connection with the 43,500,000 Italian people...
...Three weeks after the campaign's start (TIME, May 5), most observers were ready to tear up their dope sheets. Martin Dies, who eats two Communists for breakfast every morning, was running a surprisingly colorless campaign. Lyndon Johnson, 32, the New Deal's candidate, suffered the awful fate of Wendell Willkie-his voice gave out just as he began a whirlwind speaking tour. If anybody looked strong it was Gerald Mann, 34, Attorney General, who still carries about his eyes a mass of scar tissue from the days when he was a football hero at Southern Methodist University...
...house mouse (Mus musculus) calmly gnawing the sole of a newspaper reporter's shoe. Newshawk William Alexander, of the Long Island Daily Press, had been so busy he hadn't noticed. Judge Golden had the mouse caught and executed. Passing lightly over the mouse's fate, the New York Times soberly regarded Newshawk Alexander, praised his powers of concentration, added: "He approaches his duties with single-mindedness. He looks up, not down. It is possible to foresee a bright future for him if mice don't consume him first...
Last fortnight the Radical Party held a convention in Santiago's Teatro Municipal. At stake was not only the fate of the six ousted members, but also the whole broad question of Party policy; whether the Party should swing left or right-appease the Communists in the Popular Front or cooperate with the Socialists and oust the Communists. As the 600 delegates strolled into the hall one evening there was a sound of swiftly running feet in the Calle Huérfanos. Somebody shouted "Los Nacis!" Shots rang out and three delegates fell...
...Fate can be as capriciously cruel to the movies as to any other business. The race to get Shaw's plays on film began with the handicap of the author's life expectancy. Then Miss Hiller, one of the cinema's few sensitive and commanding actresses and Shaw's favorite leading lady, fell prey to long, grave illness...