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...through no fault of his own, had not had much of a life. Alberto lacometti joined the Socialists in his student days and the Fascists kicked him out of Italy in 1926, when he was 24. In France he got a job as head gardener at the lush Moulin Bicherel roadhouse. The sight of the idle rich disporting themselves disgusted him and he quit. France kicked him out and he got a job addressing envelopes in Brussels. The Germans chased him for a year, caught him, gave him to Mussolini, who imprisoned him. In his years as an exile lacometti...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: The Pallbearers Wore Pink | 7/19/1948 | See Source »

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