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Fifty miles off the north coast of Sicily, the dying volcano of Stromboli juts 3,000 feet out of the tepid Tyrrhenian. Italians call its five square miles l'isola nera (the black island), remember that in ancient days its crater was known as the gateway to purgatory...
...Baseball, What Is That?" San Francisco, where Joe grew up, is still the city he knows best. He comes from an old-fashioned Italian family, poor to begin with, but proud of each other and extremely close-knit. His parents, who had come from Isola delle Femmine, an islet off the coast of Sicily, had a ground-floor flat on Taylor Street, on the slope of Russian Hill. Joe was the eighth of nine children...
...nearing 50, he was talented, versatile and unquestionably eccentric. His professional standing in Dublin and elsewhere was of the highest; he had, in fact, been knighted only a few months before. The Wildes lived in a fine house on fashionable Merrion Square, Dublin. They had three children: a daughter, Isola, 7; a son, Willie, 12; and another son, 10, named Oscar...
When informed that he had won $1,723,083, Emilio Scala shouted: "Now I will, go to my village of Isola and settle down." He said he would share his winnings with the 39 members of his family who had pooled $2.50 to buy the ticket, employ physicians for his ailing wife...
Outside was the dark and curving Soho alley, with the foggy lights of a Singhalese restaurant, a French bookshop, a wig-maker's, an oyster bar. And the room was violently foreign, with frescoes by a sign painter−or a barn-painter: Isola Bella. Fiesole, Castel Sant' Angelo. But Sam did not look at them. He−who but once in his life had attended a Rotary lunch−looked at the Rotary wheel, and his smile was curiously timid. There was no reason for it apparent to him, but suddenly these banners made him feel that...