Word: carlos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...real hero of the Milan drama was a man who had died the week before. He was a lean, jut-jawed parish priest, Don Carlo Gnocchi, who had devoted the last seven of his 53 years to caring for Italy's maimed children. He started the Youth Foundation, which has spread from Milan to Rome and six other cities. In its hostels he housed 2,000 youngsters suffering from almost every handicap known. As he lay dying of cancer late last month, Don Carlo decided to leave two of his wards a last legacy: his sight. He willed...
...Carlo's bequest ran headlong into an old Italian law forbidding "acts of profanation and mutilation" of corpses within 24 hours after death. It is best to remove corneas within five hours, so Italians had to rely on bootlegged corneas, hastily and furtively filched from the recently dead. But Don Carlo had made himself so beloved that no public official cared to flout his final will. The corneas were promptly removed, and Surgeon Galeazzi grafted one on Angelo's left eye under a glare of publicity as blinding as the operating lights over his head. The other cornea...
Roman newspapers made front-page headlines of Angelo's words "I see! I see!" A bill to legalize corneal grafting was introduced posthaste in the Chamber of Deputies. It appeared that Don Carlo, with his dying bequest, had given a death blow to a legal anachronism...
Ahead for Composer Barber: a new opera, with a libretto written by his composer-friend, Gian-Carlo (Saint of Bleecker Street) Menotti...
...than any other Greek since Helen, Niarchos is better known to gossip columnists as an international party-thrower who is so heavy with chips that he helped with the down payment when his brother-in-law-and No. 3 Independent Shipowner*-Aristotle Socrates Onassis purchased the Casino at Monte Carlo...