Word: sicilianism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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...
...first her death was dismissed as accidental drowning, then came hints of murder. Suddenly sparked by a criminal libel suit, a vast scandal flared up, involving sex, narcotics, and playboys with high connections. The trial produced lurid accounts of the ringleader, one Ugo Montagna, whose claim to be a Sicilian marquis proved to be bogus but whose talent in another direction was undeniable: despite his luxurious way of life, he paid little income tax, and got away with it. Also involved was young (32) Jazz Pianist Piero Piccioni, son of the Foreign Minister. In a letter made public, one girl...
Among the dubbed Buses, these are currently the favorites: CJ Silvana Mangano (bust 36 in., waist 25 in., hips 35 in.), known as "the Italian Rita Hayworth." really looks more like Ingrid Bergman. The 24-year-old daughter of an Englishwoman and a Sicilian railroad conductor, she stands about 5 ft. 6 in., weighs about 128 Ibs., has brown eyes and chestnut hair. Picked as Miss Rome of 1946, she went on to a bit part in a film and a job modeling clothes, was finally offered the role of the girl who gets attacked by the sadist in Bitter...
Died. Austin Rosario ("Iron Glove") Maceo, 66, illiterate, Sicilian-born gambling czar of Galveston, Texas (pop. 66,568), which he helped make one of the widest-open towns in the U.S.; after a long illness; in Galveston. With his late brother Sam ("Velvet Glove"), Maceo became a Prohibition rumrunner, afterwards branched out with plush gambling clubs, raked in as much as $4,000,000 a year. In 1951, state legislators investigated his illegal empire, but could never get tolerant Galveston police to put Iron Glove in jail...