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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Meanwhile ... In Monza, Italy, Virginio Bonfanti, arrested as a theft suspect while watching a Western in a movie house, insisted on staying to see the end of the movie, returned to see the film again when released on bail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Sep. 21, 1959 | 9/21/1959 | See Source »

...last week on a small foundry owner, Giacomo Fabbri, in Ferrara. While they lunched on rice and salami, the foundry's workmen sent them a note of welcome and a request for a talk. They agreed. Meanwhile, word of their presence had reached the ears of Maria Prampolini Bonfanti, a hatchet-faced, middle-aged Red partisan, known as La Passionaria di Ferrara.* At local party rallies, La Passionaria always gives orders when to clap and when to boo. Now she quickly sent small boys scurrying through Ferrara to round up the party's toughs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Brawl in Ferrara | 4/23/1951 | See Source »

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