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Rain & Reconstruction. In Rome, people walked to the banks of the Tiber-not, as in the past, to watch for blossoms in the orange and lemon trees, but to see whether the river level was rising; for Italy was parched by its worst drought in two centuries. Heavy gusts of spring rain finally swelled the river, and softened the brittle earth to the seed...
...three master muralists (Rivera, Orozco, Siqueiros). The big three will help convert Italy's gaudy Mussolini Era civic architecture to the uses of democracy. Their assignment: to furbish "Forum Mussolini," the Duce's red brick and white marble memorial to himself on the banks of the Tiber (now a U.S. Army rest camp), where young Fascists used to flock to learn fencing and fawning...
...wheels. It recovered and under Major General Ernest ("Hardboiled") Harmon drove through Macknassy and opened the way into Bizerte. Later the ist fought at Cassino. It Janded at Anzio, aided the breakout, fought a savage engagement in the area of Cisterna and Campo Leone. First to cross the Tiber, it marched into Rome with the fresh man 88th, the 88th and the redhot ist Special Service Force. After that their style was cramped in the battering, constricted Italian campaign...
...Caruso for themselves. Police hid him in a back room. Balked, the mob turned on plump, well-fed Donato Caretta, deposed boss of the infamous Regina Coeli jail and a prosecution witness. Men & women spat at him, screeched at him, kicked him, slugged him. They threw him in the Tiber. Boatmen bashed in his head with heavy oars, towed his lifeless body to the jail. Then the people strung him head down and near-naked from his prison's bars. The Government decided to postpone Caruso's trial...
...Tiber. In the mountainous center the Eighth Army kept the Germans more heavily engaged. British troops captured industrial Terni, ancient Spoleto, once famed for its castle where Lucrezia Borgia ruled. Then they moved northwestward up the Tiber valley. One armored regiment took so many prisoners that help had to be sent to bring them...