Foreign News: Bounce! Bounce! Bounce!

A big-eyed bouncing babe of one is Romano Mussolini. Last week the eyes of Romans grew bigger even than Babe Romano's as he bounced before them in the arms of Benito Mussolini.

Papa Benito bounced in turn upon a large white horse. Prancing and bouncing, and cheered by loud Fascist "Ala-ala-ala-las!" the Prime Minister and his Big-Eyed Babe rode once around Ancient Rome, out the Appian Way a piece, back.

So outstanding was the occasion that Donna Rachele Mussolini, meek mother of the Bouncing Babe, was allowed to spend the week in Rome with Il Duce, then took herself and babe off to...

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