Word: sicilian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Winston and ex-wife of Comedian Vic Oliver, was having a complicated love life before cameras in Italy. Engaged for two pictures, one British, one Italian, she fell to work on both, shuttled back and forth between her roles: 1) an American composer's wife, 2) a Sicilian baron's wife, in love with another guy. "Two films at once," cried haggard Sarah, running into a little syntaccident, "are almost too much...
Twice George ("Old Blood & Guts") Patton had been stripped of his command. The first time was after a public furor in the U.S. over his slapping and abusing a shell-shocked soldier in a Sicilian hospital. (Technically, he remained head of the Seventh Army, but it was a phantom Army with no divisions.) For the old war horse, that was a bitter period. One day he visited Fifth Army headquarters before Cassino, borrowed Mark Clark's Packard, and in this conspicuous vehicle rode recklessly up to the front lines. When he could ride no farther...
General Taylor was in the thick of World War II, as artillery officer of the 82nd Airborne Division in the African, Sicilian and Italian landings, as negotiator with Marshal Badoglio behind the German lines. He got the loist command in England, jumped with the division in Normandy, led it through 73 days of combat to Nijmegen, where he was slightly wounded. In December, 1944, he was at his home in Arlington, Va., when word came of the German breakthrough in the Ardennes. He flew to France, led his division through the Battle of the Bulge...
...penniless ex-conductor of a fourth-rate itinerant Italian opera company, when he heard of a prize contest for a new one-act opera. In eight feverish days and nights he wrote Cavalleria Rusticana, a fast-moving, lyric tale of love and murder in a Sicilian square at Eastertide. It won the prize, got its composer 40 curtain calls at its first performance in May 1890, and subsequently the Order of the Crown of Italy. In Manhattan, Oscar Hammerstein produced Cavalleria in English, and the Metropolitan Opera did it in Italian; both were hits. Critics hailed a new Verdi...
...Bell for Adano. Eloquent tale of an A.M.G. officer who makes democracy work in a Sicilian town (TIME...