Word: rossi
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...write. With the emotional richness of his race and his Church, Fante writes mostly of his childhood-First Communion, baseball ambitions, parochial schools, his volatile father, long-suffering mother-always an easier trick than to write well of the adult world. But his best tale, "A Wife for Dino Rossi," is grown-up stuff, sad, funny, brutal, tender...
ANGELO J. ROSSI...
University of Chicago has Nobel-prize-winning Physicist James Franck; Eduard Benes; Italy's famed Physicist Bruno Rossi and Novelist Giuseppe Borgese; distinguished Art Teacher Ulrich A. Middeldorf. At California Institute of Technology, German-born Dr. Spiro Kyropoulos is doing important research on oil; at University of California at Los Angeles is famed Composer Arnold Schönberg. At Columbia University is renowned Viennese Neurologist Otto Marburg. Alvin Johnson's own Institute has on its graduate faculty ("University in Exile") Fernando de los Rios, onetime Spanish Ambassador; Erwin Piscator, onetime director of Berlin's People...
...requirements of the Raker Act." The citizens' seven previous refusals, said he, were "based in some measure upon misinformation." Instead of a paltry $2,300,000, "the city would double its income" by selling the power itself. But in San Francisco the decision caused a crisis. Mayor Rossi, his gall bladder and budget both upset, from his sickbed talked of canceling pay raises for city employes, increasing the tax rate 28?. Citizeness Henrietta Wright, a publicity-shy lawyers' stenographer, sued P. G. & E. on behalf of the city for $75,000,000-about what...
Authors of Bonjour les Demoiselles are Private Roger Bernstein, 28, a pianist for Music Publisher Salabert (one of the jurors), and Jean Vogade, 48, pianist to Tenor Tino Rossi. The Gamelin song was concocted by Jean Rodor, 58, veteran of World War I and a professional librettist, and Corporal Paul Durand, 32, composer of a French hit song, Tell Me That You Love...