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...Guido Corini had less reason than most to be happy about World War II and its aftermath. An Allied bullet left his spine permanently and painfully deformed. An air raid killed his wife and only child. The best peacetime job he could find at 42 was that of broom-wielder and errand boy in a Milanese gas appliance factory. Guido's fellow workers left him strictly alone after finding that their most innocent remarks evoked a tirade of resentful acrimony. His bosses found him sullen. They would have fired Guido long ago had not Plant Director Luigi Daniele insisted...
Last month even kindly Director Daniele agreed to fire Guido. Guido left quietly enough, but last week he went back to see Daniele again...
...sorry," the boss told Guido, "I have thought about it so many times, and have even discussed it with my family, but at the moment I can do nothing. I promise that if something comes up, I will keep you in mind." Guido said nothing...
Vecchi: L'Amfiparnaso (Chorus of the Accademia Corale of the Circolo Musicale di Lecco, Guido Camillucci conducting; 2 sides LP). An important milestone along the road toward opera: 14 delightful, five-part, unaccompanied 16th Century madrigals arranged in three acts...
...town councillors delivered their negatives to Communist Mayor Guido Gialdi as "evidence." Gialdi suspended Ostilio and Santina, and forwarded prints of the negatives with a report to the provincial prefect. The prefect, an appointee of Italy's Christian Democratic government, ordered Ostilio and Santina reinstated until a formal hearing could be held. Ostilio and Santina filed a suit against the mayor for "defamation and slander...