Word: italianized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...visit in Montreal and Ottawa. This week, at Washington's National Airport, they were welcomed by Vice President and Mrs. Nixon, Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and Ambassador Luce. The Premier shook hands all around and then, with a smile, read a prepared statement which began in Italian and ended in two sentences of English. His carefully-memorized, well-pronounced sentences: I do not want to finish before apologizing for getting here on Sunday afternoon. I do hope it has not spoiled too much of your weekend...
...place he hired blonde Edith Adams, probably no better at singing than Betty. Why did he do it? Explained Paar: "We're on the air 15 hours a week, mostly without script, so everyone has to double in brass. Edith Adams can do any dialect, sing in Italian, German and French, and mimic personalities from Louis Armstrong to Marilyn Monroe. What's more, she's full of ideas, and ideas are what we live...
...Benedetto Gepponi, 68, an Italian laborer. In his youth he had journeyed to the U.S., but he did not make his fortune. After a while he came home and married an Italian girl. They settled in southern France, on the Italian border near Menton, where he grubbed out a living tending fruit trees and gardens. Nine years ago Benedetto's wife Maddalena had a stillborn child, and a year later the nervous shock led to a disease that paralyzed her legs and attacked her liver...
...replace retiring General John E. Hull. A handsome six-footer, Taylor was wounded once and jumped twice into battle with his 101st Airborne Division in World War II. He was the Eighth Army's last combat commander in Korea, incidentally learned Korean (he also speaks French, German, Italian, Spanish and Japanese). On a recent flight to Washington, lean-flanked Max Taylor, who believes in constant conditioning, exercised with dumbbells in the plane aisle, read nine Greek plays in translation and a volume of Philosopher Immanuel Kant...
...Guatemalan I've known for years. Never knew he was interested in that line at all." And for Latinos the conference was a fine opportunity to look around for deals with their colleagues. One Guatemalan investor agreed to put money into a Mexican movie theater specializing in Italian movies...