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Warm Up. In Piedmont. Italy, where the National "Hearty Eaters" Competition is being held, one contestant attracted heavy betting by putting away a trial meal of 20 artichokes, 200 pickles, 15 mushrooms, 20 slices of smoked tongue, four portions of meat-filled dumplings, two bowls of rice, two helpings of hog's pudding, three helpings of boiled beef and chili, one chicken, three helpings of veal with salad, 1 Ib. of cheese, half a pie, a bowl of fruit, a gallon of wine, three glasses of cognac, four cups of coffee...
HUGH SHELDON Piedmont, Calif...
...mayor went to his friend the priest. "What is the good of trying to do anything for Visciano?" he despaired. Don Arturo, the priest, decided to try in his own way. In Piedmont he had seen Venerable Don Bosco's famed institutes for abandoned children, and he had noted that the Waldensians drew Protestant youth from all over Europe and America to build a summer camp in the Alps. "Are you going to let it be said that Protestants build better things than you?" he cried to the Viscianesi. "You have a reputation for never protesting. Are you going...
...Piedmont, Calif...
When the collection plate came around, lonely Verna Burke dropped in a note along with her contribution: Was there any kind of club or organization in the church for divorced people? There wasn't, so the Rev. Paul Davie of Portland's Piedmont Presbyterian Church went to work founding one, with 40-year-old divorcee Burke and four others from his congregation as a nucleus. After it was publicized through an interview with Mrs. Burke in the Portland Oregonian, some 200 calls swamped the church. People wanted to know if there were restrictions as to faith (no), place...