Word: palermo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Deduction. In Palermo, Sicily, Giovanni Villa, who has spent four years trying to get himself declared officially alive, complained that the only person convinced thus far is the tax collector...
Lucky Luciano, deported super-pimp of Manhattan, was having cop trouble again. Palermo (Sicily) police picked him up and quizzed him for three days about his Maffia connections. Then they let him go again till next time...
Wherever Father Lombardi goes, the crowds turn out. In Milan and Palermo, crowds of 120,000 to 140,000 have stood in awestruck silence to hear him. When Communists are sent to heckle him-to "burst the bubble of Father Lombardi"-they often find themselves unable to speak; sometimes they are moved even to renounce their political faith. And Italians who have remained cynically on the political sidelines are stirred by this unpretentious priest as no one has stirred them since Saint Francis of Assisi...
Tagliavini had met buxom Pia Tassinari (still her stage name) in Sicily during the war. They were singing opposite each other in Mascagni's L'Amico Fritz in Palermo. Suddenly the air-raid sirens screamed. Audience and singers scurried for shelter. Then Tenor Tagliavini, who had taken an instant shine to the black-eyed soprano, got his chance. In the darkness of the shelter, says he, he murmured "sweet words of comfort...
...other ever since. Married in 1941, they delighted Italy and South America with their Tosca, La Boheme and Werther, but the U.S. had only heard them sing together in concert. They ended each concert with the Duet of the Cherries from the first opera they had sung together in Palermo...