Word: baldini
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Remarkably fresh after an hour's hard cycling at Milan's Vigorelli Stadium, Italy's Ercole Baldini clocked just under 29 m.p.h. for a new world's record, announced that he would turn pro in January and was promptly ruled ineligible for the coming Olympics...
...just singing and entertaining without straining his back in the bargain. During the war he had to give up his orchestra ("Italians were too depressed to enjoy cheerful dance music"), eked out a living by trading on the black market. But since then Bruno, who changed his name from Baldini to Quirinetta after making his first big hit in Rome's Quirinetta nightclub, has become roughly as popular as ravioli...