Word: italianized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Decca). Her high, uninhibited voice soared with the echoing strings, and the record became a hit (TIME, Feb. 7, 1955). Unfortunately, her only U.S. appearance at the time was a single shot on TV, and few admirers were able to find out just why the girl with an Italian name should be singing a Spanish song in German...
...lean and attractive, and sporting a yard-long pony tail, she explains something of herself as she entertains her audience. She stems from a long line of show people, went on the road with her Italian-comedienne mother as a dancer at the age of five. Caterina is the youngest of four children, was born in Paris where the family now makes its comfortable home. There, after World War II, Caterina began to exploit her pretty voice, learned the American jazz style from recordings by Louis Armstrong, Ethel Waters and Billie Holiday. By 1952, Caterina had married a German juggler...
...with a skill and fervor far beyond mere pamphleteering and caricature. The talent Gainsborough showed for catching the majesty of England's landscape became Britain's prime contribution to painting in the hands of his successors: John Constable, who lavished the same care on cloud formations that Italian Renaissance masters gave the nude, and Joseph Mallord William Turner, who analyzed the tricks of light and atmosphere to produce a new, revolutionary art a whole generation ahead of the French impressionists...
...cardbinieri dragging the bottom of Lake Orta on the Swiss-Italian border in June 1950 were looking for the body of a man who had been dead six years. It seemed unlikely that they would succeed. But from the lake's cold, glacier-fed depths came a corpse in what looked like surprisingly good repair. Legal delays prevented its examination for four days, and in those days it suffered more visible change than it had during its long immersion. Even so, the U.S. Army's Pathologist Walter Lentino was able to make some positive identifications...
...Three Italians were tried for murder but released by Italian courts; two U.S. Armymen, Aldo Icardi and Carl LoDolce, were convicted by Italy in absentia but cannot be extradited for punishment, nor can they be tried for the crime...