Word: piazzas
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Around the Piazza Giudea, in the heart of Rome's ancient ghetto, where loyalties are fierce and memories are long, people still remember when Celeste di Porto was a quiet, intent little girl. Like other children in the ghetto, she grew up in garbage-strewn alleys, amid the antique squalor that sometimes breeds keen wits. She did well in school and read much. Said her aunt last week: "My God, once they start reading, it's all over...
...clamorous, ill-smelling market place, walked about freely, wearing beautiful dresses. Her neighbors soon noticed that anyone she stopped to chat with in the street was usually arrested by the SS. Soon they were convinced that Celeste denounced fellow Jews to the Germans on trumped-up charges. In the Piazza Giudea they said: "For every Jew, she gets 5,000 lire." They called her "la pantera nera...
...appointed day at 5:30 p.m. Velio Spano, in a natty brown double-breasted suit, crossed the little piazza in front of the church and entered the hall. A minute later Father Lombardi arrived, his face muffled in a black shawl. The contestants smilingly shook hands and took their seats behind a red table on the theater's stage. In the audience their supporters, divided by the middle aisle, sat quietly on seats marked with their names in big letters. As the seconds checked their watches, Father Lombardi murmured to Spano: "When Communism falls-as I'm sure...
Pecking over the keyboard are the 12 "Riffs": (left to right) Nancy Ryan '52, Betty Ralph '49, Alice Nelson '51, Kay Matthews '51, Felicia Reed '52, Marianne Piazza '50, Micheline Martin '49, Mary Morgenthall '51, Joan Bennett '52, Linda Cabot '51, Dorothy Lloyd '51, and Carmen Huse...
...back to this little neck. I asked the man how much, and he said $200. I took pity on him. I told him to go back to the Piazza and get his ring's worth from some rich American. I told him that we were just youth hostelers, and thus among the poorest of the poor. He asked how much we had, and I said, thinking this would get rid of him at last, that between...