Word: ciampino
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...clear across the runways of Rome's Ciampino airport last week came the brassy Dixieland chatter of Muskrat Ramble, swung by "The Roman New Orleans Band." Teen-age Italian hepcats, backed by placards of "Welcome Louie," were beating out a solid welcome for American Jazz Potentate Louis ("Satchmo") Armstrong and his All-Stars.* On the last lap of his first grand European tour since 1935, Satchmo had found solid welcomes and solid houses wherever he landed. In Stockholm, 40,000 fans welcomed him at the airport; thousands waited in line all night to get tickets for his concert. Stockholm...
...Gentle & Kind." At Rome's Ciampino airport last month the police arrested a "businessman" from New York named Charles Vincent Trupia, who had on him 20 Ibs. of cocaine, worth a half million dollars at peddlers' prices. The police, reflecting that the drug traffic was one of Lucky's oldest loves, hauled him out of his penthouse. Day after day, they questioned him. They wanted to know about another jail suspect who claimed to have been a Luciano lieutenant. Said Lucky: "The way they talk about my 'lieutenants,' I got more than the army...
Last week, in the midst of all the hubbub, Dr. Peter Lindstrom landed at Rome's Ciampino airport. He met his wife and Rossellini in Messina's shabby-best Hotel Reale, and the three talked far into the night. Next day, "for the protection of my family," Ingrid issued a statement: "I have met my husband here and have discussed and clarified our situation . . ." No one thought that the statement clarified anything, but she and Rossellini went back to l'isola nera to finish their picture. Dr. Lindstrom, back in Rome, made a statement...
...Rome, Naples, Palermo. Alarmed, De Gasperi hastened up the hill and told Umberto to leave at once. In a rage, the scion of Savoy scrapped a conciliatory message to the new republic, substituting a truculent protest. Then he donned a grey suit and porkpie hat, stole away to Ciampino airport and flew to join his family in Portugal. In a few days the Assembly would convene in Monte Citorio palace. As its members drafted a constitution for the new Italian republic, a tapestried legend on the wall would recall Italy's last king: PHARAO SUPERBUS ASCENDERE CUPIEBAT...