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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...more than a month the Italian senate had sought refuge in such nice-nellyisms as "case di tolleranza" (houses of tolerance), "case da te" (tea houses) or "persiane chiuse" (closed shutters). Last week, white-maned, octogenarian Gaetano Pieraccini lost his patience. "I am a plain doctor and a Florentine," he cried. "I call bread bread, wine wine and a brothel a brothel." No matter what they called it, Italian senators could no longer evade the issue: whether or not to close Italy's bordellos...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: The Battle of the Brothels | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

...alleged message from the gallows, until just before the start of their national elections last Sunday. The news apparently put the voters into the proper frame of mind. For the Red Fatherland Front slate (there was no other slate), 4,500,000, or almost 100%, voted a Russian da...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BULGARIA: Truth on the Gallows | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

...William F. Russell. Other artists include Jean-Pierre Barricelli '45, 3G, Howard Brown '51, Caterina Beer-Fornario, Ruth Gallagher '49, Anthony A. Giarraputo '50, Andrew M. Hoath '50, and Cynthia Lloyd '50, The program includes Renaissance metots and madrigals, 17th century music for the harp, Bach's Italian Concerto, da Vinci's Fluto Sonata, arias by Mozart, Puccini, Vordi and Donaudy, and a Fantasia Russa for piano composed for this occasion by Jean-Pierre Barricelli...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Circolo Italiano, Glee Club to Hold Concert | 12/10/1949 | See Source »

...they had slaved for it. Working on the notion that bank robbers are a likable lot among themselves and get the same pleasure out of their work as any other skilled craftsmen, Director Ray and Scriptwriter Charles Schnee have served up some fine, entertaining scenes. Their best characters: Howard Da Silva as a one-eyed lush who is outraged over the skimpy newspaper coverage of his bank robberies, and Jay C. Flippen as a hardened robber who has to work overtime to support a sister-in-law and buy his brother...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Nov. 28, 1949 | 11/28/1949 | See Source »

Ponte, who lives in Lowell House, is a Music concentrator had has formerly studied with Jose da Costa, Boris Goldovsky, Jesus Maria Sanroma, and Albion Metcalf...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ponte Makes Debut | 11/26/1949 | See Source »

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