Word: italian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...peaceful nations, with freedom and justice for all.' Then, two by two, the students, including the young son of a Soviet citizen, stepped forward to repeat the pledge in their native languages. They were: American, Armenian, British, Bulgarian, Chinese, Czech, Danish, Estonian, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Indian, Italian, Iranian, Iraqi, Israeli, Lebanese, Nicaraguan, Pakistan, Polish, Rumanian, Russian, Swedish, Swiss, Syrian, Turkish and Yugoslav...
...Italian Movie Director Roberto Rossellini (Paisan, Open City), separated from his wife and son since 1942, told his lawyers to file divorce papers. He is still on the island of Stromboli in the Tyrrhenian, where he is directing a movie about life among the fishermen, featuring an amateur cast and starring Ingrid Bergman...
Panic & Proxies. Born to the black-bread fare of Italian immigrants, young Giannini thrived on the urgent challenges of disaster, the quick opportunities of every self-made man. Taken into his stepfather's San Francisco produce business at twelve, A.P. became a partner at 19, half-owner a few years later. He retired from the business at 31 with a $250 monthly income...
Died. A. (for Amadeo) P. (for Peter) Giannini, 79, Italian immigrant's son who rose from fruit and vegetable peddler to become founder and chairman of the world's largest private bank, the Bank of America; after a heart attack; in San Mateo, Calif. (see BUSINESS...
Three days before many of the Quo Vadis staff were to leave for Italy, Peck's eye puffed up. MGM, which needed every bit of the bright Italian summer for outdoor scenes in Rome, feared that he would miss the July 1 deadline. Last week the studio bowed to the fateful intricacy of its own schedule, and put the Roman invasion off to May 1, 1950. When Peck bounced out of the hospital, having lost only two days of shooting on the Fox lot (at the cost of a mere $40,000), M-G-M was already a prisoner...