Word: alberto
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Alberto Bellardi Ricci, Italian minister to Stockholm, was about to take his new post as full-fledged ambassador to Chile. He was a kind, popular diplomat and sorry to leave his Swedish friends. "However," he said, "I shall return." On Christmas Day, in high spirits, he gave a farewell party in the legation's sumptuous dining room. Maria, the maid, brought in a letter. Legation Secretary Marquis Gian Gaspari Cittadini-Cesi looked at the disjointed scrawlings. "This man is mad," he told Ricci. "You should not receive...
...Priest . . ." Twelve thousand tough, enthusiastic young Milanese Catholics jammed into the Great Hall to honor St. Ambrose and hear militant words. Cried Monsignor Adelmo Bicchierai, spokesman of Cardinal Schuster, Archbishop of Milan: "The time has come to live again the days when the Lombards rose around Alberto di Giussano.* . . . We must be ready for victorious martyrdom...
...Argentina's Dictator Juan Domingo Perón it was all very embarrassing. Dr. Bernardo Alberto Houssay, the first South American to win a Nobel Prize in medicine (TIME, Nov. 3), was an Argentine, but he was no Peronista. In fact, Perón had fired him from the faculty of the University of Buenos Aires in 1946 because he signed a wartime manifesto favoring "democracy and American solidarity...
Argentina's shy, black-eyed Dr. Bernardo Alberto Houssay is often referred to as "the world's greatest living physiologist" (TIME, May 5). Medical researchers are also enthusiastic about a gifted pair of biochemists at St. Louis' Washington University: shy Dr. Carl Ferdinand Cori and his redhaired, vivacious wife Gerty. Few scientists were surprised last week when Stockholm announced that Houssay and Cori & Cori had been jointly awarded the 1947 Nobel Prize in medicine...
Weak Flanks. A German Army officer in World War I and a fighter versed in military strategy, Alberto Goldschmidt went to South America in 1934 to advise the Bolivian Government in the Chaco war. When war's end stranded him in Santiago, he stayed on to work for La Hora...