Word: mario
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Early Life: Born in Caltagirone, Sicily, Sept. 5, 1901, christened Mario Scelba (pronounced Shell-ba). His poor family sharecropped land owned by Don Luigi Sturzo, Italy's great political priest who founded what is now the Christian Democratic Party. Don Luigi was the boy's godfather, paid for his law studies in Rome, employed him as his private secretary, thus launched him in politics...
...LIFE AND TIMES OF LUCREZIA BORGIA (343 pp.)-Mario Bellonc!-Harcourt, Brace...
Sophomore Pete Summers, who opened the season at defense, has been shifted to wing on the third line, and will team with center Frank Mahoney and Art Noyes. Mario Celi, another converted defenseman, is the extra line...
...speech at Novara, Mario Scelba, the tough and capable Interior Minister in the De Gasperi Cabinet, had castigated the Pella government for not being tougher with the Communists. "We must have no more of this resignation," Scelba cried. "The government's duty is to lead the struggle...
Among the operagoers who heard Italian Tenor Mario Del Monaco sing at Milan's La Scala last week was a blind woman named Irene Meyer, 33, from Gaithersburg, Md. Two years before, she had heard him sing Radames in Aïda at Manhattan's Metropolitan. Stricken with incurable diabetes, Irene told friends in Gaithersburg that what she wanted most of all was to hear Del Monaco once again. What happened could have happened only in the U.S., where people 1) form committees, 2) believe that dreams come true. Irene went to Milan on funds donated...