Word: gina
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...went a little wacky and I guess I did too. I wanted to double up my fist and slug them so many times." What made life bearable for them was the generosity and courage of the Ugolini family, whose house they hid in-father, mother and two pretty daughters, Gina, 23, and Wally, 20. Gina and Wally brought the boys hot water, their meals, and the only English book they could find in the town (a well-thumbed copy of Uncle Tom's Cabin) and sometimes played cards with them in the evening. Chapp took a shine to blonde...
...night, the most anxious of the three months in hiding, Gina's Fascist boy friend walked in the house unannounced and found her playing cards with the three men. He demanded to know who the men were, and Gina, without hesitation, told him that they were U.S. flyers. The Fascist turned around, started back down the stairs, and announced that he was going to turn them in. "Go ahead," said Gina. "But you will have a dead fiancee. . . . They will shoot all of us." The boy friend changed his mind...
...celebration in Asola. The liberated townspeople toasted the Americans with red wine and white. The night of the peace, all seats were removed from the local theater for a victory ball, and while two orchestras played onstage, Roberto danced until 6 a.m., first with Wally, then with Gina...
...Died. Gina Ruberti Mussolini, 29, pretty brunette widow of the Duce's second son, Bruno; by drowning (when a small boat sank during a midnight boating party with British soldiers); in Lake Como...
Died. Dr. Gina Lombroso Ferrero, 73, crusading intellectual, Italy's first woman physician, exiled by the Mussolini regime in 1930; in Geneva, Switzerland. Daughter of famed Criminologist Cesare Lombroso, widow of Historian Guglielmo Ferrero, quiet, pleasant Gina was best known for her savage and scholarly works on sociology and female psychology (The Soul of Woman). She held that women could properly function only as domestic companions, linked this theory with her main sociological conviction - the evil of the machine...