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...find Lucia Ladanca's name in TIME'S May 30 issue, you had to read most of the way through a seven-column Foreign News story on Italy. At that point the story said: "The most disturbing economic fact of [Premier Alcide] de Gasperi's Italy is the almost hopeless poverty of such people as hunchbacked Lucia Ladanca, a Potenza housewife who lives with her tuberculous husband and eight-year-old son Bruno in a fetid tenement not far from well-stocked stores...
...story went on to say that the Ladancas never had enough money to buy Bruno trousers and shoes at the same time so that he could go to school, where he would at least get one good meal each day. "So he's growing up ignorant," Mrs. Ladanca said. "What's worse, he's hungry...
Some of you were moved by this incident to write us for Mrs. Ladanca's address, which our bureau in Rome supplied. Others wanted Bruno's measurements so they could send him shoes and clothing. A fortnight ago Correspondent George Jones, of our Rome bureau, visited Lucia Ladanca, and his cabled account, which follows, may serve as one illustration of the effect of American aid to Europeans...
...Lucia Ladanca lives in a semi-basement room at No. 3 Via Fratelli Bandieri, a narrow, cobblestoned street swarming with seminaked children. She had first told her story to Correspondent William Rospigliosi of our bureau last spring. When I arrived, she had just received two letters from TIME readers. One, from Mrs. Betty Jane Davidson, of Bluefield, West Virginia, said that a food package was on its way and asked for shoe and clothing sizes for everybody in the family. The other, from Bernice Sherman, of Bolton Landing, N.Y., also asked for clothing measurements...
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