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...PATRICIA H. BATTAGLIA Loudonville...
...Department attaché in postwar Italy, Historian Haines had an idea: the young experts the U.S. and its allies need to conduct European affairs could best be trained on location. After winning over his Johns Hopkins superiors, Haines went back to Bologna with a detailed program, got Rector Felice Battaglia's offer of the use of all university facilities. U.S. donors agreed to underwrite the center's annual $200,000 cost, and Director Haines set up shop in Bologna...
...Burlesque gagster, and is an extremely funny little man. William Mendrek and Ruth Homond, whose names appear on these pages from time to time, do their usually adequate job. And for purely local interest-besides some trim chorines who can't get telephones either-is Joe Battaglia '25, lisping an occasional word but more often playing a very neat brothel-piano background...
PRIVATE J. A. BATTAGLIA...
...Revisiting my native land after an absence of 40 years," see Rome fiddle while Italy burns at both ends-in Africa and at home. A six-month drought compels the peasants to mow down their stunted winter wheat and feed to the starving livestock. The Battaglia del Grano, the Wheat Battle, of 1938 is lost. Three-fourths of Italy's bread requirements will have to be bought abroad with "old, the gold wrung from meagre exports and the tourist trade, the gold earmarked for coal, oil, steel, copper, nickel, tin -for a thousand commodities Italy lacks and must have...