Word: piedmonte
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Taciturn son of humble parents in Italy's fightingest province, Piedmont, his greatest talents are for organizing and understanding Italian peasants. Boccia, their game of bowls, is his favorite and at it he, big-handed and muscular, is a champion. He also excels at bridge, is said never to overbid. Among military men he rates high as an able, likable professional. France's Gamelin was his good friend, though they differed on war of position v. war of motion...
...Francisco Chronicle labor columnist; Fred Vanderschmidt, cable news editor of Associated Press in Manhattan; William M. Pinkerton, A. P. reporter in Washington, D. C., each for a half-year. Fellowships for the full year: Vance Johnson, managing editor, Amarillo Daily News; George Chaplin, city editor, Greenville (S. C.) Piedmont; Harry T. Montgomery, cable news editor of A. P. in Manhattan; Book Editor Alexander Kendrick, Philadelphia Inquirer; Ralph J. Werner, assistant financial editor, Milwaukee Journal; Editorial Writer Charles F. Edmundson of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch; Harry M. Davis, New York Times feature writer; Reporters Nathan G. Caldwell (Nashville Tennesseean), John...
William M. Pinkerton, reporter, Associated Press, Washington, D.C.: Alexander Kendrick, news reviewer and book editor, Philadelphia Inquirer; and George Chaplin, city editor, Greenville (S.C.) Piedmont...
Born. To Princess Marie-José of Piedmont, and Crown Prince Umberto of Italy; their third child, a daughter; in Naples. Name: Maria Gabriella Gennaro Adelaide Adelgonda Giuseppina Felicita Margherita. Weight: 8 Ibs. 10 oz. Her maternal grandmother is Dowager Queen Elisabeth of the Belgians...
These red hills, separate and distinct from any other province of Dixie, were uniquely the South of Thomas Jefferson. The cheerful landscape and crisp air of the Piedmont were a world apart from the swampy, dream-like, hunting lowlands of the South Carolins coast, or the immense sugar plantations that lay along the broad Mississippi in Louisiana. In Charleston was concentrated an urbane civilization that drew its lifeblood from rice and cotton. Along the palm-lined Battery strolled such elegant Huguenot grandees as the Manigualts and Ravenels, who every year spent a gay social season in the city, replete with...