Word: giovinezza
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nestful of Neo-Fascists, was front-paged by happy Communists and indignant Conservative dailies alike. Some newspaper reports alleged that Hynes had visited the Neo-Fascist headquarters, had seen a film glorifying Mussolini's last stand, asked a café orchestra to play the forbidden Blackshirt hymn Giovinezza, topped off his day by observing July 4 with a 2 a.m. fireworks display on the Appian Way-creating such indignation that a city council meeting debating the reports broke up in acrimonious confusion. Heading back to the U.S. with a lightened cargo of good will, Hynes bleated his innocence...
...Bari, on southern Italy's Adriatic coast, touring American Expatriate Josephine Baker, song and dance artist, called for amateur singers and dancers from the audience to compete for a special prize-a chocolate egg. Among those who volunteered was Federico Covella, 25. "I know only Giovinezza and can sing nothing else," he informed Miss Baker. Carefree and gracious, the mistress of ceremonies waved him on, bid the orchestra to strike up the tune...
...sentence was commuted to 30 years. He had recently been released under a new Italian amnesty. Josephine Baker, 43, who holds the French Medal of Resistance for having helped Free French intelligence service during the war, hastily explained to the local police boss: "Believe me, sir, I thought Giovinezza was the title of a student song. I never thought he was a conspirator...