Word: neapolitan
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Eugenio Reale, 50, is a debonair little Neapolitan of cultured tastes who has done time in Fascist jails, served in Parliament, and represented his country abroad (as ambassador to Warsaw). He is also a Communist...
Concealed Weapons. Blond, blue-eyed Father Mario Borelli, 35, son of a Neapolitan sheet-metal worker, began his ministry in 1945 preaching to factory workers. Four years later, assigned to the city's youth, he got permission to use Naples' 500-year-old, bomb-blasted Church of Mater Dei as a meeting place. He set up an organization of young workers, but the youth that interested him most were the scugnizzi...
...lowly Neapolitan couturier named Lelio Galateri was suing Italy's voluptuous Cinemadonna Sophia (Too Bad She's Bad) Loren on the ground that he got small thanks for converting her into a lady and making her look arresting though fully clothed. Cried Galateri: "In 1953 Sophia was not yet refined and spoke an incomprehensible Neapolitan dialect. She didn't even know how to walk. She had to be educated, taught to walk and not to talk. I redressed her from head to toe and civilized her!" What was Galateri's reward for playing Pygmalion? Muttered...
...later Italian Producer Carlo Ponti met her and launched her in the movies. In the next four years, she ground out 20 films, nine in 1953 alone. Mostly, they were a tribute to matter over mind. But Sophia developed. Among other things, she learned to speak Italian without a Neapolitan accent...
...prostitutes, was set to go back in business selling hypodermic needles and such in Naples, where Italy's cops have him sequestered. Lucky's new racket, however, is apparently legitimate; he will soon open a clinical supply store, purveying such items as stethoscopes and bedpans to Neapolitan doctors and hospitals...