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...bell of the University of Padua (home of St. Anthony, whom the faithful invoke to find lost articles) tolled for nine hours. Five thousand Romans jeered U.S. and British troops in Piazza del Popolo. Mobs paraded in Florence, Modena, Reggio Calabria. At Trieste, which Italy considered lost by a Paris conference decision, 10,000 nationalist firebrands stormed right up to the bow of the berthed cruiser U.S.S. Fargo and screamed: "Down with the Allied traitors! Get out of Italy and let us settle the score! Why don't you go back home to America...
Lieut. General Sir Richard L. McCreery's Eighth Army, working the Adriatic coast, captured Ferrara and Padua, "the city of millionaires." With the 56th (London) Division in the van they entered historic Venice. Other units sped on to block the Udine and Belluno escape routes through the Tirolean Alps...
...longer important. The Fifth Army in the center, having fought its way across the Apennines in ten days of as rough fighting as any at Cassino, had really wrecked the Line. From the foothills above Bologna they were only 80 miles across the plain from Verona and Padua. The German troops retiring from Rimini, on the eastern end of the Gothic Line, and those holding the western end of the Line near La Spezia now had to race northward or be cut off, for Verona and Padua are their only ways...
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...