Word: italian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Department of Romance Languages and Literatures will offer eight new half courses next year, three in Spanish, and one in Italian...
...single new course in Italian is "A History of the Italian Language," taught by Louis F. Solono, associate professor of Romance Languages...
...study ancient weapons he decided to become an archaeologist, steadily enlarged his collection with money from his wealthy banker-father. By 1924 he had enough to establish his own museum in Trieste, wangled a small subsidy from the Italian government. In 1937 he bought a strategically located house in Trieste where he could photograph any future bombardment. It came when the Allies attacked the German garrison of the city in the closing months of World War II. "I had to wait seven years," he gloats, "but it was worth...
...wartime weapons consultant to the Italian armed forces, De Henriquez was not content to observe just one side; he was constantly slipping across the lines to see how the other side operated. He was arrested 18 times, once sent before a Yugoslav partisan firing squad: "I kept laughing and telling them I was a professor, and finally they let me go." To De Henriquez, Italy's collapse was a dream come true: "Capitulations are wonderful for collectors. Generals are busy fleeing, and nobody bothers about maps and documents...
Died. Mario de Bernardi, 65, Italian aviator who, in a little red Macchi-Fiat seaplane, won the Schneider Cup in 1926, breaking Lieut. Jimmy Doolittle's record with an average 246 m.p.h.; of a heart attack; in Rome. Once known in the U.S. as the "Flying Fascist," De Bernardi was a World War I ace (nine enemy planes), flew experimental jets as early as 1940, in recent years put all his savings into the development of a two-cylinder, 40-h.p. single-seater not much bigger than the dragonfly for which it was named. Last week De Bernardi heard...