Word: angelo
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...gives the magic numbers associated with certain objects and events. In Naples last week bettors staked nearly half a million lire on a combination 16 (funeral), 22 (flags), 81 (flowers) and 38 (beatings). The hunch-players were impelled toward this combination by events that followed the death of one Angelo Cicatiello, an obscure and contented man in life...
...Angelo was plump, jovial, devoutly Catholic. By Italian standards, he was also prosperous. Thirty years ago he had gone to the New World to seek his fortune, and in Rhode Island he had found it, in a modest way, as a Providence shopkeeper. Last June, Angelo and his wife, Anna, went back to their beloved, native Naples for a two months' visit...
Bevies of Angelo's and Anna's relatives welcomed the happy couple, but there was a small fly in the ointment. Naples, and the world, had changed in three decades; Angelo's brothers were anti-Catholic Communists; Anna's people, the Coronas, were anti-Communist Catholics. Queerly enough, they all lived in the same building, on the Via Padre Ludovico da Casoria, near Naples' biggest market...
...while, the family differences were drowned in merrymaking. With Communist and Catholic relatives Angelo celebrated too well. He collapsed with a heart attack, and last fortnight he died. His last wish had been that every Catholic organization in the market district should send a delegation, with its flag, to his funeral...
...want anything more to do with those bigots." The Catholic Coronas stood up for their rights. As a compromise, two lines of mourners followed the hearse, one carrying red flags, the other with religious banners. Said a spectator: "I don't know what our neighbor Angelo would think if he were alive. But never have I seen a funeral with better color...