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...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...
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...
...Turin, Italy...
When he was 19, he went to Turin to take his final examinations. He flunked, so he walked over to the opera house, asked for an audition, and got a contract...
Except for two years in the Italian army ("I don't like the killing business. Me, I am afraid"), Tajo has been singing ever since-in Turin, Rome, London, Milan, and in 1946, briefly in Chicago. Now, at 33, he hopes to stay in the U.S., has. already signed with the Met. He is happy that he makes people laugh, but he wants to do more serious roles than Don Basilio or Leporello. Says he: "I do the comic role because I have the nerve. But I like Boris Godunov better...