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...given in 73 cities. His works steadily draw both dedicated opera buffs and occasional fans who might not recognize another note of opera but cherish every note Puccini wrote. Last week, with special performances of The Girl of the Golden West in the composer's home town of Lucca, the musical world was busy honoring Puccini in the centennial year of his birth...
...black coat, the lining is black and orange, perhaps in commemoration of this year's Ivy League football champions. Anyway, the design is composed of the shields of Italian city-states-- Bologna, Veneza, Pisa, Lucca, Milano, Firenze, Grossto, and even stormy Trieste. Keep warm and learn geography at the same time...
Forte dei Marmi (Lucca), Italy...
After the war, high-placed friends of the Communist assassins tried to quash the matter. But 52 suspects were brought to the bar, charged with treason and murder. One trial misfired in Brescia and another got under way in Lucca. For 193 days, 300 persons (accused and witnesses) testified. An imposing battery of defense lawyers-provided by the Communist Central Committee-did not deny the killings, but argued that the Osoppos were Fascists interfering with the liberation...
...World War II, Monsignor Salvatore Montes de Oca, onetime Bishop of Valencia, Venezuela, gave refuge to Italian Partisans in a monastery near Lucca, where he was staying. The Germans executed him and the Partisans he tried to save. Last week the body of the martyr was brought back to Venezuela. It lay in state in the Cathedral of Caracas, while representatives of the Church, Government and Army paid tribute, before burial in Valencia...