Word: pisan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...member of Italy's Chamber of Deputies casually inquired of Premier Mario Scelba if he "intends to ask the U.S. Government for an act of clemency" in behalf of the pixilated U.S. poet, Ezra (Pisan Cantos) Pound, 68. After more than 30 years as an expatriate. Pound began spouting the Fascist line for Mussolini in World War II broadcasts from Rome and Milan. But it was hard to define just what might constitute "clemency" for Pound. In 1945 he escaped trial for treason because he was adjudged insane, and has since whiled away his declining years translating Confucius...
Died. Titta Ruffo, 75, famed Italian baritone and onetime (1921-29) Metropolitan Opera star; of angina pectoris; in Florence, Italy. Son of a Pisan ironworker, Baritone Ruffo turned from blacksmithing to opera, during three decades earned critical raves and $1,750,000 before he retired...