Word: attilio
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...year Brother Attilio worked on the design, first in clay, then in plaster, for the world's biggest sculptural glass panel, to go over the door of the Italian Building in Manhattan's Rockefeller Center. The panel, 10 ft. by 16 ft., took seven tons of clay, showed one huge figure shoveling. The Piccirillis are not glass workers. The model went to the Corning Glass Works for casting. Corning divided the panel into 45 sections to be joined by transparent cement, used a so-called "poetic" Pyrex glass filled with air bubbles. Last week Corning had finished...
...father was a sculptor. All six of his sons followed his example: Ferucchio, now 73 and back in Italy; Furio, 71, specialist in animal figures; Tommaso, 69, summering last week at Far Rockaway, L. I.; Attilio, 67, foremost sculptor of the brothers; Horatio, 65, another animal specialist; Guitilio, 63, marble carver, critic and the firm's businessman. All but Ferucchio are now U. S. citizens...
...said Benito Mussolini, 51, last week to General Attilio Teruzzi, 51. "You are no longer a lion. Your whiskers are getting grey. You had better have them...
...from the azure waters of Capri last week bald, cerebral British Foreign Secretary Sir John Simon rose on the wings of an Italian seaplane piloted by Ace Major Attilio Biseo, veteran of the Balbo flight to Chicago. Beside Sir John sat the Duke of San Vito, a secretary in Il Duce's Foreign Office. To discuss Dictator Mussolini's bold plan to "reform" the League of Nations (TIME, Dec. 18) Sir John had come from London, pausing to enjoy the holidays at Capri before getting to business...
...kilometre bicycle race was Attilio Pavesi of Italy. On his handlebars he had a bowl of soup, a bucket of water. In a bib that hung from his shoulders were a dozen bananas, cinnamon buns, jam, cheese sandwiches, spaghetti. Around his neck were two spare tires...