Word: rospigliosi
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lucia Ladanca lives in a semi-basement room at No. 3 Via Fratelli Bandieri, a narrow, cobblestoned street swarming with seminaked children. She had first told her story to Correspondent William Rospigliosi of our bureau last spring. When I arrived, she had just received two letters from TIME readers. One, from Mrs. Betty Jane Davidson, of Bluefield, West Virginia, said that a food package was on its way and asked for shoe and clothing sizes for everybody in the family. The other, from Bernice Sherman, of Bolton Landing, N.Y., also asked for clothing measurements...
...native Italy, Rospigliosi is the kind of correspondent TIME likes to have to round out any well-organized news bureau. His father was Italian, his mother American; he was educated in Florence and was graduated from Cambridge University in 1929. He speaks Italian, German, French and English fluently, and knows Italy like the back of his hand. He was working for International News Service in Rome when America went to war, and was promptly arrested by the police and interned as an "antinational" at Perugia. Later, he escaped, spent a winter in the hills outside Rome, made it through...
Covering the news in postwar Italy, according to Rospigliosi, is complicated by 1) red tape (e.g., it took five months to get a much-needed new car uncrated and "naturalized"), 2) the deplorable telephone service ("It is better to walk to your party than try to phone him"), 3) Rome's three-hour afternoon siestas, 4) the departmentalization of Italian news...
Concerning the last, Rospigliosi says that Rome, unlike Paris or London, is not a funnel for the country's news. This is partly due to the thinness of the file carriedby Italian news agencies, and the paper shortage which has reduced Rome's 32 newspapers (of all political complexions) to one or two pages - barely enough for the ads and the long, polemic editorials attacking the views of other editors, government officials, etc. that are a part of the journalistic character of Italy. For TIME'S purposes, therefore, much traveling and digging are necessary to find...
...news looks to a TIME editor in New York as compared to a correspondent in the field, Rospigliosi has this to say: "Here the size of things changes, and the importance of detail increases. In New York a particular story is viewed as a fraction of a whole, while in the field a correspondent has no real way of telling where the particular story he is working on stands in the whole category of the week's news being assembled at TIME. Therefore, the more details, the more accurately, the better...