Word: bolognas
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When Ben Grauer was a cub announcer at NBC, back in 1930, he competed with ten other announcers for a program sponsored by Gobel's bologna. The other ten sounded very highbrow, but Ben got the job. "That's the man," the sponsor cried, "that's what I sell-baloney...
...Italy, daughter Claudia took singing lessons, at 17 made her debut in Orfeo at La Scala, and sang in the Bologna opera house. Last January, while Ezio sat nervously in the audience, 25-year-old Claudia made her U.S. debut in Washington...
...other side of the moon. But the Red Flag flies also over cities that hold the West's most poignant memories: Virgil's Mantua, Ambrose's Milan, Ferrara. the city of Lucrezia Borgia- a woman the Communists would have appreciated: learned and turbulent Bologna, Dante's soft symmetrical Florence; Dandolo's capitalist Venice. The Communists hold Leghorn, where Shelley spent some of his waning days, and Galileo's Pisa, and Parma, famous for violets and Toscanini...
...tear yourself down after you've been building yourself up on the snowy slopes," mumbled Vag to his drinking companion. "But on second thought this isn't so bad." He made a significant gesture towards the glassed-in counter which housed slices of Swiss cheese, salami, bologna, knackwurst, brockwurst, blood pudding and other samples of the Wursthaus larder...
...logic, said the Soviet press, Comrade Vakhlin was expelled from the party and fired from his job. Later, for unstated reasons, he was reinstated in the party and is now trying to practice law. But, runs the coy official moral, "the cow won't be reincarnated and the bologna has been eaten." Minimum meaning: Siberia is vast, and there is always room there for another Russian...