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...same story all over Western Europe. For years the busiest black market in Rome was sunny Piazza Colonna, just 50 yards from the heavily guarded Chamber of Deputies. One young operator sadly admitted that in two months the dollar had dropped from 711 to 614 lire (legal rate: 570). "Spring always does this to us," he rationalized. "It can't last. People are just optimistic...
...first horrors of war, Poland invaded . . . a British passenger steamer sunk off the Hebrides . . . My last footman was called up and left to join the army." Writing of the day when the Germans took Rome in 1943: ". . . I looked into the courtyard of my old home [Palazzo Colonna]; a shell had struck the wall just over the window of what had been my bedroom as a girl . . . I was told that the porter and the butler had been wounded." On the American occupation of Rome, the Duchess wrote: "I must pay tribute to the tact and courtesy of all Allied...
...Hope, abandoning last season's gag show, will try situation comedy. Jerry Colonna and Vera Vague are out; Singers Doris Day and Bill Farrell are still...
...night after the election, until the small hours of the morning, Rome's people crowded around the column of Marcus Aurelius in the Piazza Colonna. laughing and slapping each other's backs. "Let's go home!" cried one woman. "The danger is over." While Romans celebrated democracy's victory, swarms of the city's ragged children roamed the streets, tearing down election posters in order to sell them as scrap for a few lire. It was a sharp reminder that the danger was far from over. The victors still had a price...
...second day there was a rough moment in the Piazza Colonna when police jeeps roared through a demonstrating crowd, swinging rubber truncheons on Communists and curious alike, and sending pedestrians frantically climbing up pillars. But there were no shots, no dead, no seriously injured. That evening, with the strike falling away under them, the Chamber of Labor bowed to the inevitable, called...