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...Thou Art. Facing him were 150 little girls in dresses of white tulle with long white veils, and 200 other children in their best Sunday clothes, all from the village of Boscochiaro near Venice. Pretty five-year-old Ivana Pirollo clutched a bouquet of flowers. Ten-year-old Maria Bessan carried her eleven-month-old brother Luigi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Bridge of Boscochioro | 6/5/1950 | See Source »

...their rescue. Sixteen youths who were playing bowls nearby leaped into the mass of choking children. Fisherman Bruno Pirollo pulled four little girls out, dived in again to search for his own Ivana. He did not find her. Don Moses Lionello dragged out two little girls, became hysterical. Maria Bessan had tightly hugged eleven-month-old Luigi during the fall, but had lost him struggling in the water...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Bridge of Boscochioro | 6/5/1950 | See Source »

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