Word: italianized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...vacation in Paris, Mary Pickford, 58, was invited to the Italian embassy for a little ceremony. For her work in helping orphans and sending relief packages to Italy, Ambassador Pietro Quaroni pinned the Order of the Republic on her lapel and gave her a diplomatic buss. Whereupon a member of the audience, honeymooning Sir Charles Mendl, 79, did the same. Said he: "I always kiss Mary every time I see her; been doing it for 25 years...
...chief of the Comintern's western operations. Out of Copenhagen (where he operated from the same office building used by the Gestapo) he spun a web of sabotage. During the Spanish Civil War, his men concentrated on ships carrying supplies to Franco, sabotaged 21 German, Italian and Spanish ships. During World War II, his apparatus turned to Nazi installations in Norway and to materials that the Swedes were selling to the Germans. Under German pressure, the Swedes , arrested Wollweber one day in 1941 and prepared to hand him over. But he casually produced papers showing that he had become...
...Italian art these days is a three-ring circus. Painter Filippo de Pisis, 55, seems as out of place in it as a hummingbird in a cage of acrobatic bears. While his countrymen have been shooting off futuristic fireworks or ponderously balancing metaphysics and Marxism, he has darted and hovered, recording the surface of things, in glancing, wing-light strokes...
Like his painting, De Pisis' life has combined elegance with fastidious aloofness from the rougher realities. The son of a minor Italian nobleman, as a boy he preferred botany to ball games. He was tutored at home. In 1925, after his father had died, leaving him a small legacy, he headed for Paris, to drift casually through its salons and cafes. In 1940 he moved to Venice, where he became a familiar sight, plying the canals in his huge gondola, a parrot perched on his shoulder, the words "fleur de misere" (flower of misery) printed in red across...
Died. Admiral Count Luigi Rizzo di Grado, 63, one of Italy's most renowned naval heroes of World War I (only holder of two Medaglie d'Oro, highest Italian war decoration); of a lung ailment; in Rome. In December 1917, Rizzo and a small commando force sneaked into Trieste's harbor, cut the torpedo nets, then returned with small boats to sink Austria's battleship Wien, next year equaled the feat by torpedoing the Szent-Istvan...