On the fly! (colour litho)

On the fly! In Rome, in Via Nicolo III, with a great presence of mind, some workers managed to save a two-year-old boy who fell through a fifth-floor window, laying him under a tarpaulin that cushioned the the violence of the fall. The maneuver was possible because, before falling into the void, the little one remained for about a minute entangled in the strings to hang out the laundry; the workers therefore had time to take the cloth and to put yourself in the right position. The little one got away with grazes from nothing. Illustration for Courier Sunday, 3 June 1956.