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...Mussolini's bullyboys attacked him one day beside the Tiber, and stabbed him to death with a file...
Anna Magnani had sharpened her passions on a flinty fate. She was born about 47 years ago and brought up on the wrong side of the Tiber. Her mother was a working girl and her father did a fade when Anna was a month old. At 17, she won admission to a dramatic school, and soon joined a rundown roadshow as a singer of stornelli, the street songs of a country where the streets are seldom cleaned...
Then she read from some books. She read directions one how to swim, like "Don't inhale under water," quoted from the Bible, and read from "Horatio at the Bridge," explaining how Horatio swam the Tiber clothed all in armor. Meanwhile, Captain John Phair of the Yale swimming team swam the entire length of the 25-yard pool clothed all in armor--on loan, I guess, from some museum. He wore K-rations strapped around him to make up, they said, for the lack of Tiber current in the Payne Whitney pool...
Five Hundred Prayers. Across the Tiber, the fourth river, Johnston recorded the welcome of liberated Rome. Pope Pius gave an audience to the Allied press, but what impressed Johnston were the shouts of the cameramen: "Hold it, Pope, we gotcha ..." A Scottish pipe band marched into St. Peter's Square, bent-in the words of the pipe major-on "gieing Popie a blaw." The Pope was delighted, says Orangeman Johnston, but "all the same, they might have picked on a more suitable tune than Lillibulero...
...little (pop. 12,600) Italian town of Borgo San Sepolcro, lying in the fertile valley of the upper Tiber, has a proud boast: one of its townsmen was the great Renaissance painter and mathematician, Piero della Francesca (circa 1418-92). Legend has it that Piero was a fatherless boy who took the name of his mother Francesca. He studied at Florence, returned to Borgo San Sepolcro to get his first major commission, traveled through Italy painting in Rimini, Ferrara, Rome, Arezzo and Urbino, then settled down to spend his last 14 years in his native town compiling two mathematical treatises...