Word: como
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...morning in late April of 1945, a military convoy snaked its way through a thin rain along the tortuous mountain road that winds from Milan along the side of Lake Como to the Swiss frontier. Near Dongo, 30 miles from the Swiss border, the lead armored car was stopped by a roadblock. Italian partisans, members of the fabled 52nd Garibaldi Brigade, began their search. One of the things they found was a grotesque figure of a man in a swastika-marked helmet with a German corporal's greatcoat draped over his black-shirted Fascist uniform. Two days later...
...captured the treasure, laughed nervously as he testified: "We decided to hand the treasure to the Communist Party because the Communists had fought harder than anyone else." An ex-driver for the partisans told of loading five heavy suitcases aboard a Fiat, taking them to Como and delivering them to Gorreri. "They weighed plenty," said the driver. "The car was overloaded and the wheels scraped against the fenders." Snapped Gorreri: "I never saw you before. You lie." Said the driver, unperturbed: "I never...
Then, struggling to control her voice, Mama Canali introduced a bigger name into the trial, that of the pudgy, would-be respectable leader of Italian Communism himself. Said she: "When Palmiro Togliatti came to Como, I saw him in the Piazza del Popolo. 'I am Neri's mother,' I said to him. 'My son worked hard for the party. What became of him?' 'Be calm,' answered Togliatti. 'Your son will be rehabilitated...
...holy mess" Billy's team imagined, nobody else seemed to notice. Variety tagged it a "surefire click," hailed Billy as "tremendous box office." Trendex awarded him an 8.1 rating, highest ever registered by ABC for the crucial time slot opposite TV Titans Jackie Gleason and Perry Como. (Said Perry: "Very fine rating." Said Jackie: "No comment.") That meant (if the rating systems can be relied on to calculate audiences) an audience of about 7,000,000, biggest single congregation in the history of U.S. evangelism and enough to fill the Garden every day for a whole year. By week...
...Tentatively set for Thursday as NBC's biggest summer show is a new "low highbrow'' quiz called High Low with Charles Van Doren as a panelist. Continuing live in their oldtime slots: Twenty One, Steve Allen, Alcoa-Good-year, Lux Video Theater. Good Music-Making Perry Como gets a relaxed substitute in 27-year-old Julius La Rosa, who will pull a 13-week tour in color. Says NBC's Program Director Manie Sacks: "When you are perspiring, it's a lot easier to watch the music stuff...