Word: adano
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...went all the usual cartoons, quips, verse, chichi shopping notes and critical departments. The entire issue, except for entertainment guides up front, was given over to a 30,000-word doomsday documentary on Hiroshima, by John (A Bell for Adano) Hersey. An editorial box explained that "everyone might well take time to consider the terrible implications of [the atom bomb...
...heroes have made more money or become better known than warm and selfless Major Victor Joppolo, central character of Novelist John Hersey's best-selling A Bell for Adano. Few are now more obscure than ex-Lieut. Colonel Frank E. Toscani, the prototype of Joppolo in real life...
After the stage adaption of Adano (by Playwright Paul Osborn) opened in New York, Lieut. Colonel Toscani flew home from Italy on leave. He was entertained by Actor Fredric March (the stage Joppolo), Author Hersey, and Mayor LaGuardia. Solemnly he began to sign letters "Frank (Major Joppolo) Toscani...
...Toscani, now sales manager for a Bronx moving and warehousing firm, decided (after two years) to try to collect from his dominating shadow. He filed suit for $225,000 against Hersey (now a correspondent in China for the New Yorker and LIFE) and the others who had exploited the Adano story, charged defamation of character, and declared that "the defendants . . . were unjustly enriched...
John (Major Joppolo) Hodialc, in Manhattan for the cinema premiere of A Bell for Adano, told an interviewer, "I'd like to get married more than anything. I especially believe in being married in Hollywood. It's just no place for a bachelor. There's nothing for a bachelor...