Word: sorrento
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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HENRY P. VAN DUSEN Sorrento...
...church has $3,400,000 in assets - two laundries, six hotels, business build ings, five restaurants, two canneries, two lumber mills, Santa Monica's lush Sorrento Beach Club, 1,000 head of cattle, a cheese factory and 10,000 acres of land...
...Umberto's move threatened to precipitate a shakeup which the old Marshal has tried to avoid. Anti-Fascists, including outspoken Democrat Count Carlo Sforza and compromising Communist Palmiro Togliatti soon justified Badoglio's concern. They and other members of a six-party executive junta met at the Sorrento villa of Philosopher Benedetto Croce. They had been more inclined toward a regency around Umberto's six-year-old son, the Prince of Naples. Now they embraced Umberto as an expedient to bring a "complete and quick solution to the present Italian crisis." That much was progress toward...
Brooklyn's Tony Guarino went overseas with strict instructions from his father to be sure to look up his Aunt Theresa in Sorrento-if he happened to be going that way. Aunt Theresa, Father Guarino swore, made the best spaghetti to be found in all Italy...
Tony and his M-7 tank-destroyer crew hit the beach at Salerno with the American forces, and days later helped take Sorrento, knocking out three German tanks. Tony found his aging Aunt Theresa, but not his uncle. The Germans had killed him. Aunt Theresa cooked spaghetti for Tony, his crew and a U.S. correspondent. They agreed that nowhere but in Italy could such spaghetti be found. Aunt Theresa smiled and showed them the box it came in. The label read: Colucci's Famous Spaghetti. Manufactured in Brooklyn, U.S.A...