Word: italianized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Force Chief of Staff: General Thomas Dresser White, 55, Twining's vice chief since 1953. Graduated from West Point at 18 (in the accelerated class of '20), White spent much of his early career as a military attache (Russia, Italy, Greece, Brazil), studied Chinese, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Italian. Though he commanded the Marianas-based Seventh Air Force in World War II and the postwar Fifth in Japan, he has made his Air Force mark as a staff officer, has held the Air Force's key staff job: deputy chief for operations...
...Nasser had played his hand with skill. After keeping the canal blocked for months as a lever on Western nations, he had converted its opening into a kind of reverse lever. For shippers were so eager to resume transit that they rushed through without a quibble at his terms. Italian, Greek and West German (as well as Communist) vessels were in the first convoy. The U.S., Britain and France were still "advising" their ships to avoid the canal for the moment while they dickered for better terms...
...Leoncavallo's I Pagliacci. Performed more than 200 times at the Metropolitan Opera, they were now rounding out a season that had only two more weeks to run. The casts were studded with familiar names, and in the pit was Fausto Cleva, veteran of the Met's Italian wing. But on this routine occasion the audience was treated to a beautifully sung, splendidly paced evening for which much of the credit went to two middle-aged American singers named Warren and Tucker...
Gold of Naples. Italian Director Vittorio De Sica makes high comedy of low life in Naples, and wins some superb performances from Sophia Loren, Silvana Mangano, Toto and Vittorio De Sica (TIME...
Vitelloni. One of the best of the Italian-made movies-a biting but not bitter satire of small-town life (TiME...