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Speaking to an assemblage of editors and distinguished guests at the offices of the Yale Daily News, Vellucci gave a dramatic rendition of a registered special delivery missive from Terracina, Italy. The official epistle stated that Yali, son of Angelo and Mafalda Yali of Terrachina, was born in East Boston. Yali made valuable gifts of books and money to what was then the Collegiate School in Saybrook, Conn. When the school was moved to Nuovo Rifugio, (New Haven) it was named for Yali...
...political factions as a little Italian fishing village goes about repairing its war-bombed town clock. Peace is finally restored to the community when the clock is unveiled. The movie was shot in 1950, not in Fiumicino, where political tensions were too acute, but in the ancient town of Terracina (pop. 15,600). The movie introduces a minor romantic subplot involving a pretty schoolteacher and a Popular Frontist, but is otherwise generally faithful to the original news story. Directed with an earthy flavor...
Supporting the professional performers in their leading roles are approximately 800 of Terracina's citizens, who go about their acting jobs with relish. Good musical touch: the satirical score that blares out from the screen at intervals, entirely drowning out the strident, arm-waving speechifying of the antagonists...
...visit to Fiumicino confirmed the facts of TIME'S story. It disclosed, however, that the basic antagonisms which created the Clock Fight were still present. Any attempt to make the picture in Fiumicino would probably be disastrous. Instead, Tamburella chose Terracina, a highly photogenic, centuries-old fishing village south of Rome. Having received TIME'S permission to use the story, he put his writers to work on the script. When shooting began last October, Tamburella used native Terracinans for all except the lead roles. One member of the cast, new to all moviegoers, is Patrizia Mangano...
...Second member of Egypt's royal family to die within a week. Her cousin, Princess Amina Bahruz Fadel, 61, was killed two days earlier in a plane crash off Terracina, Italy...