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Last June, debt-ridden Vincenzo Marino, 32, a baker's assistant, sealed a deal with his friend Antonio Raffa, a courtroom attendant who greatly admired his wife Francesca. After some haggling, Marino agreed to let Francesca, 29, and two of their three children move in with Raffa for a consideration of $1,600. Although he already had a wife in Sicily, Raffa seemed glad to pay the charges-in easy installments. Since Raffa, 30, was better off financially than her husband, Francesca had no objections to the transaction. The trio agreed to remain good friends, and Marino was permitted...
...Confessin ... In Manhattan, Scofflaw Johnny Raffa was arrested, socked with a 30-day sentence and given his choice of a $2,900 fine or another 116 days in the cooler for ignoring 58 traffic tickets, after he showed up for his first professional singing engagement at the annual ball of the Traffic Squad Benevolent Association...
...Lieut. Colonel Geoffrey Charles Tasker Keyes, son of the Commandos' organizer, Admiral Sir Roger Keyes, and youngest lieutenant colonel in the British Army. A veteran of Narvik, Military Cross winner for Commando work in Syria, young Keyes with 30 men made his way to a wadi, near Sidi Raffa, Administrative H.Q. of Rommel's Afrika Corps. Here they lay for two days and nights awaiting the zero hour of the Brit ish attack. When the time came the Commandos daubed their faces with burnt cork, crawled over the desert to the German headquarters building...
From the entrants in the preliminaries of the Pasteur Debate which were held recently. P. J. W. Bove '29, H. A. Wolff '29. D. D. Lloyd '31, and A. L. Raffa oeC., were chosen to speak in the finals which will take place Monday. May 13, at 8 o'clock in the Lecture Hall of the new Fogg Museum, it was announced last evening by Professor L. J. A. Mercier...
...from the rostrum of oratory and let the argument proceed in a series of quick rebuttals. The question was "Resolved, That the jury system should be abolished," and Johnson, of Carleton, introducing the affirmative case, claimed that the jury is a static part of a dynamic society. A. L. Raffa ocC reported that it is based upon the common man and is essential to democracy: at which Rowe replied that "the ordinary, common man is common enough" and so unfit to judge questions of fact. J. E. Willard '30, attacking from a new angle, felt that "the jury system makes...