Word: gianni
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...drenching rainstorm, the little Fiats were sent off first, then the larger cars-mostly powerful Italian Alfa Romeos and Ferraris and British Jaguars. The man to beat, the experts thought, was four-time winner Clemente Biondetti, a hard-bitten roadwise pro who drove a big Jaguar. No one gave Gianni, Vittorio, Paolo and Umberto Marzotto much of a chance...
...Young Gianni Marzotto, 21, set off at a 100 m.p.h. clip, remembered passing brother Vittorio, 28, in the first hour. But he had little time for watching other drivers as he increased his speed, sometimes to 118, through the winding Apennines roads and finally thundered into Rome, the halfway mark. Enthusiastic Romans cheered and kissed him, told him he was in the lead and that Champion Biondetti's Jaguar had dropped out for emergency repairs. "For the first time I thought I might win," Gianni recalled later...
Playing It Safe. Waved off again, he bored back through incessant rain toward Florence. Between Florence and Bologna he struck snow and hail which slowed him down. At Bologna, brother Paolo, 19, who had been forced to quit when his brakes failed, begged Gianni, with his nine-minute lead, to play it safe. So, over the last 145 miles, Gianni held his Ferrari down to a conservative 105 m.p.h. on the straightaways until he saw the finish light in Brescia. Then he poured...
When Anna-Lisa, still slim and pretty at 38, sang her first aria, from Puccini's Gianni Schicci, her bright-colored soprano was tight and quivering with nerves. It loosened up in arias from Gounod's Romeo and Juliet and Charpentier's Louise. By the time she had sung duets from La Boheme and Romeo with Jussi, she had proved she had something more than a talented amateur's equipment, if something less, after too many years away from public singing, than a professional way of using it. She would get a chance to correct that...