Word: italian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When you used the picture of an eight-year-old Italian boy, Italo Renzetti [TIME, June 7], who was blinded and left armless by a World War II hand grenade, we received many contributions from your readers* . . . We used some of the money to buy for him what is known as a Galimberti machine. [With it] Italo Renzetti, an exceptionally bright child, not only learned to write Braille, holding the stylus between his stumps, but the other day managed to "draw" an airplane, which he told our Italian representative was "for TIME Magazine...
...This phrase in the Vatican's official transTation did not mean that the Pope knew what the Communists had done to Mindszenty but was not free to reveal it. In his Italian draft, the Pope used the phrase influenze inconjessabili-unspeakable influences. What these were, said a Vatican official, the Pope did not know...
Mistrusting Hollywood, he and the producers are considering doing an independent film version, directed by cinema-wise Elia Kazan (Gentleman's Agreement, Boomerang). Other Miller projects: two new plays, one a "pathetic comedy" about an Italian worker in Brooklyn's Red Hook section, and a novel set on the Brooklyn waterfront...
...British government has no official knowledge og Scott-King's presence in the country, his is compelled to leave by the underground disguised as a nun, and is at length deposited at a small Mediterranean port among various royalists, anarchists, Pétainists, terrorists, ex-Gestapo men, Italian airmen, Turkish prostitutes, Hungarian ballet dancers and Portuguese Trotskyites. He winds up eventually at a Jewish Illicit Immigrants' camp in Palestine where one of his former students recognizes him and establishes his identity...
Take a well-bred young English lady named Armorel Cepinnier and bind her in matrimony to Gian ("Toughie") Ardree, an Italian-born bricklayer with quick fists and a slow brain, and you can have a nice stew of social and psychological problems. Set the uplift-minded Armorel and the hairy-chested Toughie to living in one of the meanest streets of one of London's slums, and the stew is likely to become too thick to stir...