Word: springing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Privileged & Perverse. About the same time last spring that the Montesi case hit the headlines, another girl named Adelaide Montorzi died, obscurely, after babbling deliriously, in a Rome hospital. The police thought that Adelaide might have been kicked and beaten by a man, probably a pimp. While following up their leads, the police found that Adelaide Montorzi had frequented several call houses, one of them a decently furnished apartment in a respectable district of Rome. Watching two of these places, the cops identified two furtive but highly important visitors: Communist Giuseppe Sotgiu, president of the Rome provincial council...
...Boston Symphony, conducted by Charles Munch, made its Manhattan debut this season with Mario Peragallo's Violin Concerto. The work, by Italy's rising Composer Peragallo (44), won a first prize in Rome's Twentieth-Century Music conference last spring. A slick combination of atonal technique and Puccini-like melody, it kept Violinist Joseph Fuch's fingers flying, pleased musical conservatives more than the radicals...
President Pusey yesterday told leaders of the Divinity School student body that no dean will be appointed to the school until late next spring...
...Glee Club will also sing outside the United States for the first time since its 1920 European trip, when it travels to Canada during spring vacation. The itinerary includes Quebee, Toronto, Otawa, Kingston, and Hamilton...
...years the only rules change for the lightweights has been to raise the weight limit five pounds, so that now when the little men weigh in an hour before game time, they must tip the scales at 155 pounds. For reasons of convenience and de-emphasis, the league prohibits spring practice and does not allow competition to begin until the second week in October...