Word: sant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...morning last week a small grey limousine drove out of Paris' Santé Prison, bearing to freedom the chubby onetime pastry cook who is acting secretary general of France's Communist Party, the second largest in Western Europe. Jacques Duclos, who had been in the pokey for nearly five weeks on a conspiracy charge, listened happily to the cheers of some 50 friends, admirers and fellow troublemakers gathered outside. The car stopped; Mme. Duclos rushed up, bussed her husband soundly on both cheeks, handed him a bunch of red gladiolas and got in beside him. Then the grey...
...Milan. Ever since then, Severino's intricate pen & ink studies of such subjects as lizards, snails, fish, insects, flowers, vegetables and bike races have kept right on winning prizes in juvenile art shows at home and abroad. Severino's classmates at the village grammar school in Sant' Arcangelo soon caught the fever, formed a hard-painting little group known as "the School of Severino." Paramount Films did a movie short about the youthful artists. In last year's ECA International Child Art Competition (TIME, Sept. 24, 1951), several of the top prizes in Italy went...
...Neither his mother nor his grandparents can read or write. His father was captured by the Russians on the Don nine years before, and, like 60,000 other Italian soldiers, has not been heard of since. None of the other ten relatives who share the poverty-ridden farmhouse in Sant' Alessandro had ever sent or received a postcard in their lives...