Word: sicilian
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...biggest radio ruckus was caused by ABC's Disk Jockey Martin Block who virtuously announced that he would no longer play Columbia Records' Mambo Italiano. Reason: he had been told that some Sicilian words in the lyrics, particularly the word for "cucumber" (spelled phonetically in the lyrics as "jadrool"), had a dirty meaning. Mitch Miller at Columbia Records promptly produced letters from an Italian-American priest and a professor of languages at New York University denying that the vernacular words used in the song "could possibly be construed as offensive to anyone." At week's end Block...
...better job than private oilmen has been in Sicily. After drilling 20 dry holes, Mattel's A.G.I.P. pulled out of Sicily. In 1950 Sicily, which has a large amount of autonomy, allowed two dozen foreign and Italian firms in to hunt for oil under a new Sicilian law. By last week, Gulf Oil Corp. had brought in three promising wells with an average production of 350 tons daily in the Ragusa area (TIME, Jan. 25). The Anglo-Iranian Oil Co. has reported that it, too, has found oil. But when Gulf asked for permission to exploit its find last...
...father, who only a week before had resigned as Foreign Minister in order to stand by his son's side, promptly suffered a nervous collapse. Piero, however, submitted quietly enough. At the big grey prison where he was locked in a cell just vacated by a Sicilian accused of murder, he refused to send out for special meals, ate instead the plain prison fare of boiled beef and bread. "This is as good a time as any to follow the diet my doctor recommended," he said. And from a pretty quarter, he got a pretrial assist. Cinemactress Alida Valli...
...rector of the University of Messina since 1943, he has made the university one of Italy's best. As a medical man specializing in the nervous system, he has done research and lectured in Berlin, Paris, London and South America, authored 150 publications. The son of a distinguished Sicilian (his father was mayor of Messina for 30 years) and married to a descendant of an old Sicilian noble family, Martino is not the fiery and excitable Sicilian of tradition, but deliberate and controlled to the point of pedantry. "He's one of those rare Sicilians who doesn...
Clerical circles were alarmed when Premier Mario Scelba, also a Sicilian, picked Martino as Minister of Education seven months ago, because Martino is firmly opposed to clerical influence in public schools. But Martino concentrated on the noncontroversial job of refurbishing Italy's run-down public-school system, became one of the Scelba Cabinet's brightest stars. The first Italian Foreign Minister since the late Carlo Sforza who can carry on a conversation in English (passably), French (pretty well) or Spanish (fluently), Martino is a sturdy supporter of the Western Alliance, a "good European" who believes that the defeat...