Word: romes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rome's Communist L'UNIT...
...Rome's Christian-Democratic IL POPOLO...
...elegant $750 wardrobe, hopefully tailored to camouflage the equatorial bulge of Nikita Khrushchev (42-47-44), was delivered to the Soviet embassy in Rome for forwarding to Moscow. Items: a double-breasted charcoal grey suit, a single-breasted brown suit (with a fine red stripe), two overcoats, two pairs of size 9 shoes (with pointed toes), three felt hats. Sighed Roman Tailor Angelo Litrico: "I did my best...
Died. Beniamino Gigli, 67, famed lyric tenor, an Italian shoemaker's son who took over Caruso's roles at the Metropolitan Opera in 1920, sang and acted with a peasant's gusto ("as naturally as a gamecock fights"); of pneumonia; in Rome. Refusing to take a salary cut during the Depression (other Met stars did), Gigli huffed off to Mussolini's Italy, predicted "something like a civil war" for the U.S. (he later denied it all), sang for top Germans during the war ("What would you have done?"). In a triumphant 1955 return...
Died. Adeodato Giovanni Cardinal Piazza, 73, longtime secretary of the Vatican's Sacred Congregation of the Consistory; of pneumonia following two cerebral strokes; in Rome (see RELIGION...