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Pleading for his life, Giovannini finally promised to sing Salan's praise in print. The "commandant" stayed his execution and returned him to the Aletti with a message for all twelve Italian newsmen in Algiers: leave, or die. Eleven left by the next available plane. The twelfth, Nicola Caracciolo, 30, of Milan's Il Giorno, defiantly holed up in the Italian consulate for three days ("It is my moral and professional duty to stay at my post"). Then he, too, prudently fled to Rome...
Roger Hansen, who broke in to block an extra point attempt last week, and Ed Caracciolo start at defensive ends. Hansen had a difficult time last week; playing opposite Tiger captain Frank McPhee, he was taken out almost every time Princeton ran to the weak side. Caracciolo, a six-foot-two-inch 200 pound senior, broke into the starting lineup in the middle of the 1951 season, and has been the best defensive end ever since...
There was no strike. Explained an anti-Fascist spokesman, the republican Action Party's Prince Caracciolo: "We had to give in to precise orders from General [Sir Henry Maitland] Wilson...
Venezuela's Foreign Minister Caracciolo Parra-Pérez used only one gesture as he rose to speak. He shook a furious finger under the pained nose of Ruiz...
Blanche knew everybody. He was at Dieppe when it was a favorite spot for poets and painters and when Edward VII, as Prince of Wales, paid regular visits incognito (with the whole town informed) to the villa of the Duchess Caracciolo. Later on Blanche knew the great houses of London, and pays an eloquent tribute to Mary Hunter, whose wit and beauty inspired Henry James, George Moore, Rodin, Sargent and himself. One of his stories about her gives the slightly archaic flavor of his worldly revelations, which sound like something out of Proust. When Rodin was working on a bust...