Word: turin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Wheat Turning Gold. Three weeks ago on May Day, De Gasperi stood in Turin to watch a three-hour parade of Italian workers buzzing past on Vespas. the sleek little 4½-h.p. motor scooters which are fast becoming for Italians what the model T was for American workers. "Just look," exclaimed the Premier. "And may the miserable government over which I preside also be blamed for this...
...Brescia crowd, was of records being smashed again & again at every checkpoint. Ferrari Driver Gianni Marzotto, the 1950 winner, reached Verona at an average clip of 106 m.p.h. Minutes later, Verona clocked Argentina's Juan Fangio, in an Alfa Romeo, at 106.6. Former World Champion Nino Farina, of Turin, also in a Ferrari, raised it to 109.7. The crowd gasped when it heard about Italy's Consalvo Sanesi and his Alfa Romeo. His speed: 112.8 m.p.h...
...Europe with his package show, "Jazz at the Philharmonic." In the next ten weeks, he and his musical tourists expect to put on much the same kind of program - and get the same kind of flat tering attention - in such cities as Oslo, Brussels, Paris, Geneva, Zurich, Milan and Turin...
Puccini: La Bohème (Rosanna Carteri, Ferruccio Tagliavini, Giuseppe Taddei; Chorus and Orchestra of Radio Italiana, Turin, conducted by Gabriele Santini; Cetra-Soria). The singers give an appealing account of life in their drafty garret, but are vocally outclassed by others who have recorded the popular opera...
...Paris; Albert S. Cook, Jr. to study literature at the Univ. of Paris; Wilder W. Crane, Jr. to study political science at the Univ. of Vionna; Alan Davis to study linguistics at the Univ. of Padna, Italy; Louis F. Del Duca to study law at the Univ. of Turin, Italy; Richard M. Douglas to study history at the Univ. of Montpollier, France; Joseph Finkelatein to study history at the London School of Economics; Fred L. Glimp, Jr. to study economics at the Univ. of Cambridge...