Word: bari
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Though without much voice-he classifies himself as a "bastard bari-tenor"-Actor Slezak made the audience laugh almost every time he opened his mouth, particularly at his first-act entrance, when he was bundled in fluttery finery and carried a small live pig (rubber diapered) under his arm. Whatever critics thought of the rest of the performance, no one had an unkind word for Walter. Said he: "Maybe the Met should apologize to me for the mixed reviews; I came out shining like a rose...
...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...
Chain Reaction. In Bari, Italy, a passing transport plane accidentally dropped a mile of steel links on Giuseppe Patrono's olive orchard, started rumors of a Martian invasion...
Last week Italy's Protestant proselytizers had some good news from the Italian equivalent of the U.S. Supreme Court. Francesco Giuseppe Rauti, 36, had quit his job as a salesman eight years ago and become a Pentecostal pastor after attending an evangelical service in Bari. He went to Crotone (pop. 40,000) on the sole of Italy's boot in 1955, and since then has managed to recruit a congregation of more than 300. When the police closed down his church in a converted apartment, Rauti carried his case to the 15-man Constitutional Court, whereupon the court...
...Recently police called on a Bari citizen, who had paid a fine in 1935 for skipping the Fascist pre-military course, to demand an uncollected registration fee: 55 centesimi (.088 of a cent). And not long ago at great output of bureaucratic labor, the government began paying off Sicilians for damage inflicted by troops of King Francis II during Garibaldi's campaign in 1860. Biggest payment: one-tenth of a cent...