Winston Churchill, vacationing at Lake Como, surprised the Milanese by visiting the grave of Mussolini, whom he had often delighted to abuse.*
Pancho Villa, famed Mexican revolutionary of a generation ago, would have been proud to know that Gimbel's Manhattan department store put his pearl-handled six-shooter on sale for $450.
Henri Philippe Pétain, under sentence of life imprisonment (commuted from death), was voted by the French Academy to be no longer one of their immortals.
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Cab Calloway, Negro jumpleader, landed in court after a tussle with Claude Hopkins, whose band plays at Broadway's...
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