Word: foggia
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...foot of Mount Hood in Oregon, where Lila Foggia, 44, a former Hollywood studio vice president, now fishes for steelhead outside her family's forest-shaded house on the bank of the Salmon River and exults, "God, I love living among normal people...
...picture ourselves together again . . . I love you with all my heart and no one will & ever come between us." No one did. Married in 1950, they reared five children. Robert Kirsch, now 66, of North Huntingdon, Pa., was a radioman en route to his B-17 squadron in Foggia, Italy. He wrote seven of the undelivered letters, two of which were to his parents, who are living in Florida. As he picked up his missives last week, he observed dryly, "If I had known that this was going to happen, I would have written more letters...
After a year at Boston's Emerson College and another three with the Fifteenth Air Force near Foggia, Italy (since enshrined as Archie's old unit), Lear was laid off his first job with a Manhattan publicity firm. Then he went bankrupt with his own novelty ashtray business. He took his wife and infant daughter to Los Angeles, where half of his luck improved. He at least survived as a door-to-door salesman of furniture and baby pictures...
Readers and editors recalled the popularity of the strutting little chieftain, the cheering crowds that greeted him, the cottages where his picture was pasted beside the Virgin Mary, and the women who fell in love with him. "It's still unclear to me," wrote a reader from Foggia, "to what extent Mussolini imposed himself on Italians and to what extent he was called. Because there was once a time when we were all a bit mad." Insisted Novelist Giovanni Artieri: "Mussolini gave Italians the awareness of belonging to a great nation...
Such was the situation in the moun tain town of San Giovanni Rotondo, not far from Foggia in southeastern Italy. Here was a shrine to a saint who was not only popular but who provided the extra added attraction of being alive as well. Padre Pio was not officially a saint; to qualify for sainthood, one must be dead and have been responsible for at least four unchallenged miracles. But one day in 1918, the Capuchin friar looked at his hands and what he saw terrified him so that he fainted; the frightened monks who came to help crossed themselves...