Word: orlandi
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Paul Alciere '51 and Adorna Orlandi '58 expected to be tested on "Problems in Italian Composition and Syntax." But when they arrived in the examination room, they found that Professor Rigo Mignani had forgotten to write an exam for the course...
...Rome suburb, Borgata Gordiani, where poverty lives in two-room shacks and walks the dirty, unpaved streets, young Father Giovanni Orlandi confronted the problem raised by the decree. "Many have told me," he said, "that they'd like to break away [from the Communists] but don't dare. The men who come to church are taunted and jeered by young hoodlums. Some of the women are even more fanatical than the men. It's poverty that makes them so, I guess...
Italian opponents are lucky for Don Diablo. His most important victim before Venturi was Carlo Orlandi, onetime champion of Europe. When they met in 1935, Orlandi won the first seven rounds and Manager Burston begged his man to get busy. Said Devil Montanez: "This fight isn't over yet. They'll pick him up off the floor. . . ." In the eighth round, Orlandi picked himself off the floor three times, in the ninth four times, in the tenth twice. The next time he went down, his seconds carried him out. When the fight was over, Orlandi spent four months...
Admirers of Devil Montanez hailed his clear-cut victory last week as tantamount to a championship. Venturi, who succeeded Orlandi as the best Italian lightweight, last January held Champion Ambers to a draw which many spectators thought should have been a decision for the challenger...
...Philadelphia, Orlandi Spartaco, whose antiFascism impelled him to jump on the running board of visiting Foreign Minister Dino Grandi's car two months ago and shout insults, was released from jail on $1,000 bail. The Italian statesman had pleaded with Governor Gifford Pinchot to release Zealot Spartaco from a two-year prison sentence...