Word: romes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mexicans are very clever horsemen, and we saw them last spring in Rome and in the Olympics - the best cavalrymen in the world, perhaps, by now. But "the big secret of Mexican riding" isn't a Mexican secret at all: it is an Italian...
...such arrived last week. He is William Rospigliosi, of TIME Inc.'s Rome bureau, and you may recall some of his by-lined stories in TIME: A Clock For Fiumicino (Sept. 1, 1947), The Pope's Day (May 5, 1947), or the controversy over The Water of Arsoli (Sept...
Around the Piazza Giudea, in the heart of Rome's ancient ghetto, where loyalties are fierce and memories are long, people still remember when Celeste di Porto was a quiet, intent little girl. Like other children in the ghetto, she grew up in garbage-strewn alleys, amid the antique squalor that sometimes breeds keen wits. She did well in school and read much. Said her aunt last week: "My God, once they start reading, it's all over...
...wanted the "good things in life." In the fall of 1943, she began to go about with one Vincenzo Antonelli, a notorious young Fascist street brawler, who roamed the Jewish quarter with a gang of toughs, plundering shops and beating up stray Jews. Then the Nazi SS (which ruled Rome) started raiding the ghetto. Whole families were sent to concentration camps...
Homecoming. After Rome's liberation, Celeste disappeared; for a year, there was no trace of her. Then a Jewish veteran of the Italian army recognized her in a Naples brothel. After two years in jail, she was tried and, although she denied everything, sentenced to twelve years. Last spring a general amnesty freed her. She became a Roman Catholic. But she kept thinking of the ghetto she had left. She decided she wanted to see it again. Last month, she went home...