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General Giuseppe ("Peppino") Garibaldi of Manhattan and Connecticut is the grandson and namesake ofItaly's late great Liberator and no mean soldier in his own right. In 1897, aged 17, he climbed out of a window of the Technical College at Fermo, Italy, and made off to Athens, where his father was collecting a band of Italian volunteers to fight in the Greek war against the Turks. It was then that he donned, for the first time, the Garibaldis' traditional red shirt ("because a man in a red shirt can neither hide nor retreat").* General Garibaldi resents being...
...head of a clan of tyrant-hating Red Shirts, peppery Peppino Garibaldi naturally did not think much of Benito Mussolini's Black Shirt". IN 1924 he called the Roman Legions of the Fascist militia "a gang in the pay of the Government" and the Legions' commander, General Varini, challenged him to a duel. Peppino refused, said the insult had been meant for Mussolini, whom he would gladly fight any day. General Italo Balbo, then commander of all the militia, thereupon challenged him. Peppino still wanted Musso lini. So he shook off the dust of Italy, moved...
Annulled. The marriage of General Giuseppe ("Peppino") Garibaldi, famed Italian soldier-of-fortune, and Madelyn Nichols Taylor Garibaldi, Manhattan socialite; in Nyack, N. Y. Reason: argument over the legality of Mrs. Garibaldi's divorce (Mexican) from her first husband, Stevenson Pierce Taylor...
Captain Rooney of the Technology aggregation was the next to finish, fourth place being closely contested by Rooney's team-mate, Rick. Sixth, seventh and ninth places were taken by Horpe, Akerly and Smith, all of Technology, while eighth and tenth were captured by Edward Gordon '27 and Peppino Porfilio '26, respectively...
...University will race as follows: W. L. Tibbets '26, E. C. Haggerty '27, R. G. Luttman '28, Edward Gordon '27, G. L. Stebbins '28, J. N. Watters '26, L. P. Feinberg '27, Peppino Portfillio '26, W. V. King '28, and H. R. Kobes...