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People Unadulterated. In discussing the faiths they live by, barely half of the contributors to This I Believe found it necessary to mention "God" and only ten owned up to having any formal religious belief. Among them: Poet Robert Hillyer, Educator Elizabeth Gray Vining, National League Umpire Ralph ("Babe") Pinelli. (Said Umpire Pinelli: "I believe in my God, my family, my country and baseball...
...divisions of the Ministry of Corporations), S. K. followed him. In Rome he was introduced to Rome's exclusive Circolo della Caccia (Hunt Club), where Count Ciano gave most of his political dinners. Soon S. K. carried a guest card. At the Hunt Club he met Count Roberto Pinelli, member of the undersecretariat of the Ministry of War. S. K. and Pinelli discovered "a mutual enthusiasm for the writings of Thomas More," author of Utopia, 16th-Century blueprint of the society of the future. Though Pinelli wore "the founder emblem of the Fascist party . . . [S. K.] caught hints...
...reports for the first time several sabotage successes by the underground, including the blowing up of the torpedo factory at the Pola naval base. But the group's sabotage was hampered by Fascist laws forbidding workers to shift jobs. The group asked S. K. if his friend Pinelli could put the necessary transfers through the war ministry. Pinelli stared out the window a while, then said yes. Soon his fine Italian hand had set off the biggest of the Matteotti's explosions: of the buried oil reservoirs at the Spezia naval base...
Joseph Paul Di Maggio Jr. learned baseball on San Francisco's windy Funston playground, baseball kindergarten of big-league players like Oscar Vitt, Alvin Crowder, Umpire Babe Pinelli. One day the playground coach, Edward Hennessey, found him peering through a knothole at the San Francisco Seals, introduced him to their president, Charlie Graham. The Seals tried young Di Maggio at shortstop but he showed a tendency to throw ball to the outfield instead of first base. That was in 1932. In 1933 Joe Di Maggie's older brother Vincent, Seals outfielder, hurt his shoulder, was released...
...Widener Library treasure room, two new exhibitions are being featured this week, including a few of the more interesting copies of the Florentine picture books. The other display is a group of engravings by Bartolemeo Pinelli Romano, done...