Word: del
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Manhattan advertising man, who was awarded the Silver Star for heroism on Guadalcanal, won another battle in 1946 when he overcame an opium addiction picked up after his injuries in the Pacific; and second wife Cathy Hewlett Ross, 33, ex-showgirl who divorced him in 1946; in Del Mar, Calif...
...Conquests, The Gallery and The Wolf That Fed Us) stressed the loneliness and isolation of individual Italians and their G.I. counterparts. Pratolini's Tale of Poor Lovers, a novel of Italy after World War I and of the goings-on in Florence's impoverished Via del Corno, makes the converse point: that men's lives are intricately intermingled, for good or evil, with the lives of their neighbors...
...most of the workers, merchants, prostitutes and thieves who inhabited the tiny Via del Corno in 1925, Mussolini's recent power grab was of less interest than neighborhood scandal. But Carlino, the Fascist clerk, itched for the Second Wave that would bring revenge on his political enemies. And Maciste, the Communist blacksmith, glumly recognized the shattering defeat that Italian leftists had suffered. Fruit Peddler Ugo, his hotheaded disciple, broke with him over weakkneed party policy, but returned one night when he learned that the Second Wave was starting. They roared off on Maciste's motorcycle in a desperate...
...aging, bedridden Signora had been shrewd enough to quit her life as a ruthless courtesan before she became the victim instead of the victimizer of men. Now her cook, spying from the window on what happened in the Via del Corno, kept her supplied with the essential information for her intrigues and extortions. In the end, deserted and foiled, the half-crazed Signora determined to punish the entire street; she bought up every house and ordered wholesale evictions. But her fury brought on a stroke that left her a speechless idiot, while the Fascists collected the rent on her houses...
...time Conductor Del Mar came back, this time in full dress, to lead his six-piece orchestra into the introduction, everyone was ready to roar the first number, The Sweep's Song...