Word: romes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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General Clay's special train pulled out of Essen and trundled the Congressmen to Frankfort. There they all shook hands, split into teams and hurried off in all directions. This week the rest of the show-me committee was spread all over western Europe-in Paris, Brussels, Vienna, Rome-asking questions, taking notes...
...tried running a merchant seamen's canteen. She gave that up and went to Rome. There she worked as a reporter for Hearst's International News Service. Said Dee-Dee: "I've been searching for some kind of work both useful and interesting." In 1946 she returned to the U.S. and revisited Shangri-La. Last spring she fluttered back to Paris, this time as a fashion editor for Harper's Bazaar. There last week Dee-Dee got married again...
Thinking you might like to know how we managed to get the story, I asked William Rospigliosi, of TIME'S Rome bureau, for an account of his work on it. This...
...Fiumicino story came to my knowledge quite by chance. It was the Aug. 15 Feast of Assumption of Our Lady -an occasion when Rome literally empties itself. A friend, a glass cutter who has a studio near by, and who, like me, owns a motorcycle, proposed that as the roads were empty it would be a good day for a race. We settled on Fiumicino, 18 miles away...
...pick up anything else. Rocchi was talking to someone else about the clock's face, which he said had been supplied free by a nearby glass factory. But I already knew that from the minutes; so I decided there was not much more for me. I returned to Rome with an appointment to meet the secretary again two nights hence and with what I believed a corking good story in my pocket...