Word: umbertos
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...spectators, that more than a score were injured and seven more drivers were dead. But by the time they wound up the bloodiest Pan-American yet, the racers had also managed to hang up a few less gloomy marks. In the unlimited sports car division, Italy's Umberto Maglioli, driving a Ferrari, set a new race record of 17 hrs. 40 min. 26 sec. In the small sports car division, Germany's Hans Hermann, driving a Porsche, finished in a record 19.32:33. In the U.S. small stock car division, Texan Tommy Drisdale, driving a Dodge...
...transformed the Seville siren into a beautiful American Negro factory girl, took the toreador from the bull into the prize ring and turned the words from Spanish-flavored French into minstrel-show English. With all these modern wonders, the Metropolitan Opera dared to compete, by staging a revival of Umberto Giordano's opera of the French Revolution, Andrea Chénier, a work it has not done in 21 years...
...government's action as an opportunity to bring down their hated enemy, tough Mario Scelba. Communist Boss Palmiro Togliatti, with the support of Fellow-Traveling Socialist Pietro Nenni, threw one of his best firebrands against the government in Parliament. Before a packed Senate gallery, Red Senator Umberto Terracini recounted how Polito had served under National Police Chief Tommaso Pavone, who had resigned under the pressure of the Montesi case. And who had been Pavone's boss at the time of the Montesi girl's death? None other than Premier Scelba, who was then Minister of the Interior...
...Badly injured in May by a horn that pierced the roof of his mouth and fractured his brain pan, he came gallantly back early this month "with the taste of the horn in his mouth" to win a phenomenal triumph. Another newcomer is Peru's Indian-featured Umberto Valle, 23, who gave the year's finest single display of valor. Gored and tossed high in the air, he fought loose from the infirmary attendants who were carrying him away and killed his bull...
...gamble with multimillion-dollar productions come rolling in, will tell the tale. But no matter what the climax, it is sure, in a vital respect, to be an anticlimax. The finest hour of the Italian cinema was rung in with Open City (1946) and tolled out with Umberto D (1952), and every man of talent in the Italian movie industry knows it. Few are willing to give up the prospect of prosperity, but most are sad and just a little ashamed to see their pictures become more and more Hollywooden...