ITALY: Grandpa

Youth is Fascismo's stock in trade. The party anthem, "Giovinezza" is all about "Youth, youth, springtime of beauty!"

Just how old is Benito Mussolini?

"I am too busy to grow old!" he has said. When his daughter Edda, Countess Ciano di Cortellazzo, recently returned from Shanghai where her husband was Italian Minister, photographs of her baby son Fabbrizio were barred from Italian newspapers which were further forbidden to mention Il Duce as a grandfather.

One day last week the Dictator joined Count & Countess Ciano at the Adriatic sea resort of Riccione. On...

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