Word: coeli
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...government prepared a speedy trial for Assassin Pallante, jailed in Regina Coeli (Queen of Heaven) prison. In the Policlinico, 55-year-old Togliatti contracted pneumonia, but after massive doses of penicillin (from the U.S.) he felt well enough to ask for a newspaper. He wanted to know how Italy's star rider was doing in France's cross-country bicycle race, the Tour de France...
Coolly fingering the long, deep dueling scar on the left side of his face, Kappler told the court how, after long consultations with Mackensen and Maeltzer, he had combed the streets of Rome looking for hostages. There were not enough condemned men in the Regina Coeli prison, so he had had to fill out the list with 57 Jews. Asked why he had shot 15 more than ordered, he explained: "Somebody must have sent them as extras, I guess...
This week the Government tried to try Mussolini's blood-stained police chief, Pietro Caruso. Howling Romans surged into the courtroom, demanded Caruso for themselves. Police hid him in a back room. Balked, the mob turned on plump, well-fed Donato Caretta, deposed boss of the infamous Regina Coeli jail and a prosecution witness. Men & women spat at him, screeched at him, kicked him, slugged him. They threw him in the Tiber. Boatmen bashed in his head with heavy oars, towed his lifeless body to the jail. Then the people strung him head down and near-naked from...
...Sunday night in Sanders Theatre and Monday night in Symphony Hall, Woodworth will lead the Glee Club and the Radcliffe group, accompanied by Boston Symphony players in Mozart's "Regina Coeli...