Word: turin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hall built for 3,600, cheered the old New Orleans standbys that Louis played for them. In Copenhagen, the director of the State Symphony Orchestra dismissed afternoon rehearsal so that his musicians could go and hear Satchmo's golden trumpetings of High Society and Royal Garden Blues. In Turin, Armstrong worshipers squatted or knelt in the theater aisles when all seats were filled. Rome's welcome was the biggest yet. Armstrong played three sellout concerts, got embraced by Italian Cinema Queen Anna Magnani (Open City). Sightseeing in the Coliseum, he raised his gold-plated trumpet, gave out with...
...Italians, as to most Europeans, soccer is what baseball is to Americans. No team in Italy was more beloved than Turin's Torinos, whose emblem was a charging bull. Bull-like, the Torinos charged their way to the national championship four times, seldom failed to pay off in the totocalcio, the national soccer pool, where 22 million Italian fans each week place their bets. When the Torinos beat Spain's championship team in Madrid last March, a husky Parma worker cried out: "The Italian Republic's first international victory." The papers picked up the phrase and made...
Last week, the Torinos took off in a chartered airliner for a routine training match against a Portuguese team (which defeated the Italians). On the flight home, lost in a soupy fog, the plane crashed into the Basilica on Superga Hill above Turin (where the members of Italy's former royal house are buried). Dead in the flames were all eleven members (and seven reserve players) of the Torinos team...
...days, more than 800,000 mourners had filed into Turin's rococo Palazzo Madama, past coffins that held the remains of Italy's greatest team. Sobbed nine-year-old Luigi Foschi: "The champions are dead. What shall...
H.C.L. In Turin, Italy, the fine for public kissing, which was 10 lire before the war, hit a new high of 5,500 lire...