Word: rossi
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When World War II came, Musician John Rossi of Methuen, Mass, was ready. In 1917 he had watched the boys march away; he had two small children and an obligation to stay home. But when the Massachusetts National Guard was called to Federal service this time, Rossi had 18 years of training behind him and was inducted as a technical sergeant. His children were grown and he was thrice a grandfather...
...course Band Leader Rossi found himself in New Guinea, later on Guadalcanal, where he and his bandsmen made little music but had plenty of chance to get shot at while carrying stretchers and hauling supplies between foxholes. Sixty-year-old Sergeant Rossi stood up as well as any under the pounding, until a skin disease incapacitated him. Last week he was back in the States, leading Army band concerts between treatments at a North Carolina hospital...
...Because "Frisco" is a contraction abhorrent to all San Franciscans, roly-poly Mayor Angelo Rossi sped to Hollywood to take issue with 20th Century-Fox, about to release a picture called Hello, Frisco, Hello. Upshot: the mayor got a hundred feet of prelude film in which to express his disapproval, and when the picture opens in San Francisco this week, the title will be Hello, San Francisco, Hello...
...among which were U.S. crews getting their first lesson in actual combat, to harass, work on the flanks, blunt the Sturm without meeting it in head-on collision. General Grants operated by U.S. crews waylaid one column of Mark Ills and Mark IVs and routed them. (Said Private Barney Rossi, of Brooklyn: "If we'd had our newest tanks we'd have moidered dem bums...
With the imminent possibility of a Jap bombing raid hanging over their heads, San Franciscans last week felt a strange, pleasant exhilaration. Oldtimers who saw the 1906 earthquake said that nothing the Japs could do would compare with that. Ever-optimistic Mayor Angelo J. Rossi said: "Why worry? No bombs have fallen...