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Word: verna (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Eighteen months ago, she graduated from the caramel stage with a concert debut in her home town of Pesaro, began touring Italy, Scandinavia and Spain. This winter, Ettore Verna, a friend of her father's conservatory days, now teaching singing in Manhattan, arranged for Anna's first trip...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: An Angel from Paradise | 5/8/1950 | See Source »

...Guilty. Finding the cause of the fire did not take long. Among the rescued inmates was Nicholas A. Verna Jr., an antiaircraftman at Salerno beachhead, who had got combat decorations and a head wound in World War II and returned to civilian life with a case of pyromania. With nine cases of arson on his record, Verna had been confined to Belle-Vista by the Veterans Administration. Confronted by investigators, Verna confessed that he had wandered into the basement and set fire to a towel near a laundry chute. "I got a sick feeling and had to do something...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DISASTER: A Chance to Be a Hero | 4/10/1950 | See Source »

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