Word: turin
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...Near Turin, Cinemactor Orson Welles was feeling shaky. He and his new friend, Italian Cinemactress Lea Padovani, were crash-landed in a pasture on their way to a benefit. No bones broken...
...Napoleon, artistically the Göring of his day, sacked Italy to fill the Louvre. "We will have everything that is beautiful in Italy," he decided, "except a small number of objects at Turin and at Naples." He even forced Pope Pius VI to sign a treaty whereby the Louvre acquired (if only for a few short years) a hundred of the Vatican's greatest jewels...
...over the Red north, riots flared. North-south railroads were dynamited in four places. In Genoa, workers joined forces with armed ex-partisans, took several carabinieri prisoners, captured armored cars, posted guns on rooftops, seized the power plant and plunged the city into darkness. In Turin, 30 industrial executives were held as hostages. In Abbadia San Salvatore, in Tuscany, two regiments of government artillery were required to repel workers attacking the nation's main telephone center. At week's end 20 police and rioters were dead and more than 200 were injured...
...snug little villa on the Via Tuscolana, with its book-lined walls and plain desk. He made a visit of inspection last week. Limping through the high-ceilinged rooms (his leg was injured in 1926 when, after a U.S. lecture tour, he tried to swing aboard a moving Turin streetcar, American fashion), he issued his first orders. A lot of the massive furniture was to be taken out; his stacks of books and his plain old desk would be moved...
Ideas & Ideals. But all the bravos in South America and in Turin, where he conducted next, couldn't have kept Toscanini from a job he had his eye on. With his cello under his arm, he scurried to Milan to join the orchestra-as second cellist-that was preparing the premiere of Verdi's new opera, Otello...