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...vastest audiences ever assembled for purposes of unabashed materialism, Gino Prato, the humble Bronx shoemaker, softly read aloud a cablegram from his papa in Italy, roughly translated: "It is enough. Stay where you are." Said Gino: "Because I take my daddy's advice since I was a kid, I accept it now . . . and take...
...national election pool, one Luigi Prato, of Valenza, a pessimistic member of the Popular Front, accurately guessed the number of seats the Popular Front would receive in the Chamber. By betting against his own side...
...back to the Arno virtually throughout its length. But at many points he had not been pushed beyond the river -an important distinction. Eighth Army positions were open to harassing mortar and artillery fire from isolated German pockets on the south bank and from the high ground of the Prato Magno in the great bend of the Arno, southeast of Florence. If the situation was bad for Kesselring, it was also uncomfortable for General Sir Harold Alexander...
...life. Now printed only in English, Free World plans editions in Chinese, French, Spanish. Editorial board and contributors read like an anti-Fascist Who's Who: Cordell Hull, Nicholas Murray Butler, Dorothy Thompson, Clarence Streit, Eduard Benes, T. V. Soong, Mme. Chiang Kaishek. Its editor is Carlo a Prato, onetime secretary to Count Carlo Sforza when he was Italy's Foreign Affairs Minister (1920-21), for 20 years Geneva correspondent for the New York Times...
Wanted by both the Gestapo and Mussolini's agents, a Prato escaped a refugee roundup in France by fleeing to Morocco with a false passport. While being examined for the Gestapo list, the examining officer observed: "Why, you look just like this man a Prato." Said coolheaded a Prato: "Why, it is a remarkable resemblance...