Word: patches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sica's fairy tale, written by Cesare (Shoeshine, The Bicycle Thief) Zavattini, is the story of Toto the Good (Francesco Golisano), a newborn baby found in a cabbage patch by a quaint, gentle old lady. Toto is reared in an orphanage after her death and graduates one day into the streets of Milan, a youth of 20, utterly naive, trusting and goodhearted...
...COOP'S sensation of last year is available again this Christmas, connoissuers and bon vivants alike will be pleased to learn. The striking, tasteful Harvard Garter is again on sale, at the Coop only for $1.35. Made of black elastic, satin, and lace, with a red satin patch that says "Harvard" in gold letters, this unusual item is guaranteed to enhance the grace of even the shapliest...
Michele tries hard to live in peace. Renting a sour patch of land from Nino's father, he and the boy cultivate it furiously. But he can no longer live only for himself; he begins urging the peasants to seize the uncultivated land neglected by the absentee owners...
Among the passengers aboard the U.S. transport General Patch when it left New York harbor for Europe last week were Mr. & Mrs. Frank Carlson. They were off on a month's trip to Europe to see their daughter Eunice Marie in Bremerhaven, and to visit Sweden, Great Britain and France. It was just a vacation, apparently. Nevertheless, the eyes of some key U.S. politicians were riveted on one Carlson stopover: Paris. Republican Senator Carlson of Kansas, one of the top men in the Ike-for-President movement, is going to Paris to talk with General Dwight Eisenhower...
Next morning, ten days after the robbery, three youths found Dr. Covner lying dead in a patch of woods near North Reading, about 15 miles northwest of his home. A bottle of nitroglycerin tablets was found in one of his pockets, but he had left no note, and there were no signs of violence. It later developed that he had been taking nitroglycerin as a stimulant after suffering a heart attack last year. At week's end, despite an autopsy, officials were unable to determine the cause of his death...