Word: bruna
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wartime buddies in the Italian underground, Subbiano's two top Communists made a fine team; tough Mayor Sabatino Cerofolino had the brawn and wily Party Secretary Italo Nofri had the brain. But Italo Nofri also had a wife Bruna, whom he called "the prettiest girl in all Subbiano." Despite the fact that her husband and his friend had succeeded in converting a majority of her fellow villagers in the little Apennine town to Communism, Bruna remained an ardent Roman Catholic. She even insisted that their son be sent to study in a Catholic school, and despite his own deep...
...soon afterward, Bruna Nofri was surprised by a sudden visit from Mayor Cerofolino, who came panting into her home to tell her that her son had been injured in an automobile accident. At the mayor's promise to take her to the injured boy, Bruna frantically hurried out with him. But instead of finding her son in the lonely cottage to which Cerofolino took her, she was set upon by the brawny Communist, stripped of her clothes and photographed naked. "Get that husband of yours back into the party," warned Cerofolino, "or everybody in town will see these pictures...
Woman with a Letter. In the weeks that followed, the tormented Bruna told no one of her experience. Mayor Cerofolino was re-elected to office, but by a much smaller majority, and Nofri's anti-Communist campaigning grew stronger than ever as he spread the news around of Khrushchev's secret speech denouncing Stalin's reign of terror. Last month Bruna got a letter warning her for the last time to put a stop to her husband's anti-Communist activity. Desperate, she showed Italo the letter. Italo went straight to the public prosecutor...
Helping Hand. Two years ago, however, Longo took up with a chic party member who was not so easily palmed off-young, slender Bruna Conti. Soon after she bore him a child, Bruna began insisting that Longo marry her. Last fall the nearby Communist-dominated little Republic of San Marino, which is always ready to give Italy's Reds a helping hand, announced that it had granted Luigi Longo a divorce...