Word: italianized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...life that he would never forget nor be allowed to forget. On the night of July 25, Third Mate Johan-Ernst Carstens-Johannsen, 26, was in command of the bridge of the 12,500-ton Swedish liner Stockholm when she speared and sank the 29,000-ton Italian liner Andrea Doria. At stake, as he told his story, were not only legal claims totaling some $40 million but the still unanswered questions of blame in the great North Atlantic shipping tragedy (TIME...
...calculated that she would pass to port within half a mile to a mile of Stockholm. He did not see Andrea Doria's lights until she was less than two miles away. (At once the counsel for the Italian Line pounced: "What do you think obscured the lights?" Replied Carstens-Johannsen: "That's what I'm also wondering," and then he conceded that Andrea Doria might have been obscured by "patches of fog.") In any case, mindful of the captain's order not to pass within a mile of another ship, he ordered a sharp turn...
This week Italian Captain Piero Calamai will take the stand to tell his side of the tragedy, in which some 1,670 lives were saved and 50 lost...
After pleading that he was too sick to testify because of his heart condition, Manhattan's frog-voiced Gambler Frank Costello, 65, looked in perfect health when the Government's deportation case against the Italian-born racketeer was thrown out of court (because so much of the evidence was gathered through wire taps). "By the law of averages, I was bound to win this one," said Costello. Then he was led back to prison, where he recently began serving a five-year sentence for cheating the Government on taxes...
...place of the old Latin and Greek requirements, students may now count a full year course in French, German, or Italian if the course mark is B or above. The English department is investigating the possibility of accepting additional languages...