Word: romes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...real or phony." He had been letting his readers in on his facts & fancies since he joined U.P. in South America at 19. Fired in Paris (for wearing a red beard, according to Pack), he was rehired to cover the Ethiopian and Spanish wars. He was Rome bureau chief when the Fascists interned him and his wife, Eleanor, whose by-line had become as well-known and somewhat more reliable. The Packards got even with Mussolini by writing a book called Balcony Empire...
...Protestants in Italy are enjoying the last weeks of liberty to proclaim their faith with rights more or less equal to Roman Catholicism's. This spring, barring some development not now foreseen in Rome, a new postFascist constitution will be approved which will put Italian Protestantism back into the same strait-jacket that Mussolini kept...
...special examinations in the Department of the Classics are given in the senior year. For non-Honors candidates, these entail written tests on the literatures of Greece and Rome, and the translation at sight of Greek and Latin authors. Honors candidates in the Classics must also take a composition examination. Greek and Latin honors students may substitute a thesis for the composition work, as may those in the combined field...
...Mussolini of having instigated the brutal murder. For appearance sake, Mussolini had Dumini and four accomplices put on trial. Dumini got off with two months in jail. Last January, 23 years later, he was put on trial again by the re-established Italian Republic. He took the stand in Rome's Court of Assizes, looking as jaundiced as the walls with their ornate Roman eagles, whose gilt was flaking off from time to time and floating gently down into the courtroom. He seemed to snarl as he spoke, because his World War II bullet wound had distorted his mouth...
...work close to his heart: his own house in Split (Spalato), on a promontory overlooking the Adriatic. When Yugoslavia was taken over by the Fascists, Městrović was jailed for pro-Allied sympathies. After four months he was released through the intercession of the Vatican; in Rome, he reciprocated by modeling the Pope. He spent the rest of the war in Geneva. In ten busy months at the American Academy in Rome last year, he completed most of the works in his new exhibit...