Chapter V Luckily for me that, unlike my friend, I had remained as thin and agile as I was once and I felt the same strength in my body as when I was a kid, otherwise that day I would not have got away with it. It was only two more days before my departure for New York. In the early afternoon I went out to go to the Gazzetta del Popolo to write an article for the third page. In those days without the internet, while you could use the mail for magazines, for newspapers you had to physically go to the office, because of the much faster publication times. Only foreign correspondents had the privilege of dictating the article by telephone and sometimes reporters if the news was urgent. I and the other publicists had to deliver the piece written at home in person, or write it directly on site