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Biggest Ram prospect is broad jumper and high jumper Gerald Ferrara. Ferrara has bettered 23 feet in the broad jump and 6'3' in the high jump...
...fellow Italians like his delicacy and deftness. This week two exhibitions of De Pisis' graceful still lifes, on-the-wing landscapes and gentle portraits were showing simultaneously in Milan and his home town of Ferrara. On view in Rome was his sensitive portrait of French Novelist Colette, which had won him a million-lire Premio Roma...
Valdo Magnani and Aldo Cucchi, Deputies and former comrades who have put Italy ahead of Russia, dropped in last week on a small foundry owner, Giacomo Fabbri, in Ferrara. While they lunched on rice and salami, the foundry's workmen sent them a note of welcome and a request for a talk. They agreed. Meanwhile, word of their presence had reached the ears of Maria Prampolini Bonfanti, a hatchet-faced, middle-aged Red partisan, known as La Passionaria di Ferrara.* At local party rallies, La Passionaria always gives orders when to clap and when to boo. Now she quickly...
...victories in municipal elections. Such cities as Sofia and Bucharest and Belgrade have always seemed to be on the other side of the moon. But the Red Flag flies also over cities that hold the West's most poignant memories: Virgil's Mantua, Ambrose's Milan, Ferrara. the city of Lucrezia Borgia- a woman the Communists would have appreciated: learned and turbulent Bologna, Dante's soft symmetrical Florence; Dandolo's capitalist Venice. The Communists hold Leghorn, where Shelley spent some of his waning days, and Galileo's Pisa, and Parma, famous for violets...
While the Ministers were taking their oath, crowds before A.M.G. headquarters in Milan shouted for bread and work. In Turin, Pavia, Brescia and Novara there were similar demonstrations. In Ferrara and Modena mobs broke into the jails, Tommy-gunned to death some 30 Fascist prisoners...