Word: angelina
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most important decade of Louis Prima's career, namely, the '40s. While disk-jockeying in wartime London and postwar Munich, I was swamped with letters from G.I.s and civilians with jaded musical appetites who asked for repeat after repeat of ''garlicky-dialogued" Robin Hood, Angelina, and the big hit of all, I'll Walk Alone...
...only way Cleveland's Rocky Colavito has ever played baseball since he discovered the game existed as a toddler back home in The Bronx. Rocky was the youngest of five children born to Rocco Colavito, a sturdy, hard-working iceman, and Angelina Spodafino. Rocco and Angelina came separately to the U.S. in the early '20s from Bari, Italy, met and married in New York City. Rocky's boyhood heroes were his big brothers, Dominick and Vito, who taught him to throw and hit on the paved playing field of Public School...
...lost her campaign for re-election to Italy's Senate-concedes that most of the girls from the shuttered houses as well as the vast majority of the nation's 7,000 formerly licensed streetwalkers will simply join the vast army of clandestine prostitutes. Says blunt Angelina Merlin: "Thirty percent of all women between 15 and 60 give themselves up to prostitution in its various degrees." As for complaints that she has imposed an intolerable hardship on Italy's pridefully hot-blooded males, Signora Merlin last week snorted: "No one ever died of continence...
...closing was the sole triumph of Socialist Deputy Angelina Merlin, whose incessant appeals to conscience had finally driven Italy's reluctant male legislators into outlawing an industry that paid the Italian state $20 million a year in taxes and license fees (TIME...
...doughty little woman with tinted grey-blue hair has finally destroyed a venerable Italian institution: the state-supervised brothel. Angelina Merlin, 68, is Italy's only woman Senator. For ten years she has been nagging Italy's legislators to do the right thing. Last week the Chamber of Deputies ran out of delaying tactics, and by a vote of 385 to 115 ordered that all houses of prostitution (which have been paying a 3% tax on income to the state) be closed within six months, and that their 4,000 girls serving 30,000 clients daily...