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Although Anna Maria was news to most Americans, her singing had been pleasing listeners in Italy and elsewhere on the Continent for a good while. In 1943 her father, now a cellist with Bologna's Teatro Comunale, then director of a music conservatory on the beleaguered island of Rhodes, wanted very much to get his family back to Italy; six-year-old Anna cinched the airplane priority by piping Caro Nome for the island's military governor. At war's end she got showers of caramels from American G.I.s by warbling Gounod's Ave Maria...
Playing It Safe. Waved off again, he bored back through incessant rain toward Florence. Between Florence and Bologna he struck snow and hail which slowed him down. At Bologna, brother Paolo, 19, who had been forced to quit when his brakes failed, begged Gianni, with his nine-minute lead, to play it safe. So, over the last 145 miles, Gianni held his Ferrari down to a conservative 105 m.p.h. on the straightaways until he saw the finish light in Brescia. Then he poured...
...Bologna, a Red stronghold, the party could produce no sea of faces or grim proletarian columns. In groups of five to eight, activists toured the city, calling on shops to close and workers to strike. Whenever the celere appeared, the activists, to avoid arrest, would suddenly produce a soccer ball and begin to play. In one day there were at least 500 games going. Major trouble was avoided, but shops remained shut, factories idle...
...staunch antiCommunist, but the whole village loved him. Last spring, when the old parish priest died, the people of Affrico allowed themselves, after a suitable interlude of grief, to exult over the prospect that Don Giorgio would now become their priest. But after a competitive examination the Archbishop of Bologna decided otherwise, gave the post to one Don Luciano Massa. Don Giorgio sadly left the village...
...Affricans composed a blunt letter to Don Luciano: "It is with the greatest sorrow that we learn of your nomination as the parish priest of Affrico . . ." They sent a delegation to him, and another to the Catholic authorities in Bologna. On their weather-beaten, 17th Century church and on the rocky mountain road they put up big signs: "Affrico wants Don Giorgio . . . Don Giorgio, come back to your parish." Said a burly peasant: "If Don Giorgio doesn't come back, the carabinieri had better get themselves a barracks up here...