Word: italian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Everybody Dance. The new krewes cut across a dozen social strata. There are Italian krewes, Irish krewes, German krewes. There are krewes for college men, businessmen, professional men. To the horror of New Orleans' old guard, there are even krewes for women. Each seemed determined that its ball should be as lavish as the next. Queens of new krewes were not always debutantes, but all-like pretty Shirley Ray Toups (see cut), who reigned over the Bards of Bohemia ball-were gorgeously gowned...
Next day, bespectacled, precise Ivan Matteo Lombardo bravely tried to remind his fellow Socialists that the lion, no matter how softly he purrs, is a carnivorous animal. "We must look to the Marshall Plan," he began quietly, "from an Italian point of view, not from that of the Cominform." His next words were drowned by cries of, "You are the Voice of-America...
...Plan ruins our chances of trading with Russia," Lombardo continued. "Do you know what percentage of our imports came from Russia? 1%." A deafening roar swept up from the audience. In a last effort, Lombardo shouted: "To sabotage the Marshall Plan is to kick over every pot in every Italian kitchen...
...Gollan practiced as a pediatrician, did research work on high blood pressure, made malnutrition studies of Italian children for UNRRA. In 1946 he went to the University of Minnesota Medical School, where he is now assistant professor of physiology...
Died. Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari, 72, heavyweight Italian composer of lightweight opera (The Jewels of the Madonna, The Secret of Susanne); of a heart ailment; in Venice. He enlivened dying operatic formulas, made a great success of putting many old styles to a few new uses...