Word: lucas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Police Dogs & Walkie-Talkies. To take charge of the campaign against Giuliano, Scelba announced the creation of a special force of 2,000 young carabinieri, all from mainland Italy, and all unmarried. At the head of the new command he placed Colonel Ugo Luca, a robust, taciturn ex-army officer who holds eight medals for valor. Luca planned to use tough paratroopers as ground assault troops, set up small, highly mobile units equipped with machine guns, walkie-talkies and police dogs. The Italian treasury appropriated one million lire a month for the special anti-bandit campaign...
...Renaissance which produced Raphael, there were painters whose art, compounded of form and fire equally, remained a major triumph of the Christian world. The city of Florence was no bigger than Peoria, Ill., but in a single century-the isth-she blossomed with the paintings of Masaccio, Ucello, Botticelli, Luca della Robbia, Fra Angelico, Fra Filippo Lippi, and a score of others...
...other nights last week New Yorkers could hear brilliant, brash Lenny Bernstein's New York City Symphony playing the new music that the older conductors ignore. They crowded into recitals by Singers Marian Anderson, Carol Brice and Giuseppe De Luca; concerts by Pianists John Kirkpatrick and Alexander Brailowsky (who in six programs is playing every solo piano piece Chopin wrote). There were folk songs and ballads, American songs by Tom Scott, South African veld songs by Josef Marais, and jive concerts all over the place...
...there were the three real leaders of the Rumanian Communist Party, all able and none of them native Rumanians. The three: Emil Bodnzras (real name Bodnarenko), a Ukrainian from Bessarabia; Laszlo Vasile Luca, a Hungarian from Transylvania; and Ana Pauker, a German-Jewish Communist whose husband was formerly an official of Amtorg (Russian-American Trading Co.) in Manhattan. The brains of Rumania's Communist Party, Comrade Pauker now lives handsomely in her Bucharest villa...
During his first song, Handel's Let Me Weep, Lord!, De Luca wept. So did most of his audience, for the great baritone voice had lost none of its splendor; if anything, it was even more musical...