Word: genzano
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...Understand?" Beside the Anzio beachhead, war-ruined Genzano calls itself "Little Stalingrad," takes pride in supplying table wines to Italian Communist Boss Palmiro Togliatti. Over half its 10,000 people (many of them unemployed, some dwelling in caves) support the Communists. Yet they are married in the church, have their children baptized, and are buried with a priest blessing the grave and a banner-bearing Communist official paying pompous graveside respects. Last Sunday an old woman peddling the Communist paper L'Unitá was surprised when asked what she and her fellow Communists would do about the church...
...Last week, while playing polo with Lord Mountbatten, Duke Peneranda and Lord Wodehouse, Col. Harjes fell from his pony, crushed his skull beneath flying hoofs. Died. Prince Umberto Ruspoli, brother of the late Prince Enrico Ruspoli, scion of a most ancient and distinguished Roman house; at his estate near Genzano, attacked and shot through the heart by a thief. Died. Senator Bert M. Fernald, 68; at West Poland, Me., of heart disease. Died. Robert Stanley Weir, 69; in Memphremagog, Quebec. Died. Margaret Charlotte Smith Howard, 72, Baroness Strathcona, rich, only child of the first Lord Strathcona, widow of a prominent...