Word: guzzi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...without a single fatality. But this time, while the riders managed to survive, the devilish mountain course proved more than a match for the British bikes that have dominated the races since World War II. The Junior T.T. (for machines up to 350 cc.) went to an Italian Moto Guzzi; the Senior T.T. (for 500-cc. bikes) was won easily by British Motorcycle Champion Geoff Duke, mounted on a four-cylinder Italian Gilera. Duke's best time over a 37¼ mile lap: 99.97 m.p.h...
...Zodiaco Gallery, Roman art lovers quickly took to Beverly's relaxed, motherly views of ordinary people-churchgoing Negroes in Georgia, earthy peasants in France, broad-hipped laundry women in Italy. The canvases were done with easy grace and warm understanding of the hardships in everyday life. Wrote Virgilio Guzzi in Il Tempo: "At times melancholy, at times naive, the artist pictures the life of the poor ... in such a way as to give us a poetic image." Added Italy's top critic, Lionello Venturi: "I think she will become a notable painter...