Word: padua
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Professor Arturo Castiglioni, 66, of the University of Padua in Italy, is a refugee teaching at Yale. The son of a rabbi, he was born in Trieste, brought up an Austrian. After World War I, when Italy acquired Trieste, Dr. Castiglioni became an ardent Italian. But he never joined the Fascist Party, and, despite his tremendous popularity at Padua, was forced out by anti-Semitic laws...
...General Court Eaton admitted the wretched state of affairs in Cambridge; and, after' thus cleansing his soul, he left town with all the school funds. These were soon squandered in Virginia on wild sprees and a second wife. Next Eaton turned up in Italy at the University of Padua where he received M.D. and Ph.D. degrees, leaving one bounce ahead of $5,000 worth of bad checks...
Beside the Po. One day while these things were happening in Rumania, a trimotored bomber with a very determined-looking little Italian at its controls landed at San Nicolo airfield, on the Lido near Venice. Out jumped Benito Mussolini and into an automobile. He drove to ancient Padua, which Attila the Hun sacked and burned in 452 A.D., and there reviewed the motorized Turin division of the Army of the Po. He saw 10,000 soldiers, but 150,000 civilians were on hand to look at him. After reviewing the troops he stood up in a camouflaged armored...