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...Nice Guy. Giuseppe Dolce, a stonecutter, came from the small town of Dronero, in the Italian Piedmont. When he was 19, he went to France and got a job with a road construction company which was elegantly called La Société du Cylindrage du Littoral. He kept the job for 20 years. He was a stocky, dark man with a round face, high cheekbones and thin lips. He never smiled; neither did he grumble. His bosses liked him because he was.always the first on the job, the last to leave. The other workers in his gang liked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Love in the Sun | 12/8/1947 | See Source »

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