Word: peppino
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...title is the G.I.'s final word of advice to his chubby war-time friend, Peppino, a seven year old short-hauler who owns a donkey. The story is Paul Gallico's now well-known tale of how a humble son of Assisi got to see the Pope and saved his donkey...
Died. General Giuseppe ("Peppino") Garibaldi, 70, grandson and namesake of Italy's famed, red-shirted Liberator, onetime ardent antiFascist, author (A Toast to Rebellion); in Rome. A soldier in six wars, Garibaldi, at 23, led 3,000 Venezuelan rebels against Dictator Cipriano Castro, later became Francisco Madero's chief of staff in the Mexican revolution of 1910-11, organized an Italian Legion to fight for France in World War I. At first violently opposed to the Black Shirts, he eventually shifted his allegiance to Mussolini during the Ethiopian campaign but was put into jail by the Nazis during...