The Press: Journalism Is Life.

Taking after their father, Master Vittorio Mussolini, 14, and Master Bruno Mussolini, 12, have tackled journalism as their first big job. At Rome they publish La Penna del Ragazzi (The Boys' Pen), weekly.

With his boy's pen Master Bruno dashed off a short story, "The Vessel of the Dead." Hair raising, it resembles (except for lack of sex motive) Il Duce's own lurid serial The Cardinal's Mistress,* penned while he was helping to edit a Socialist sheet.

Master Vittorio last year completed a gripping novel, The Blackhand, which...

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