In 1969, Prince Pasta debuted a TV commercial set in Boston's Little Italy. Fifty years later, the ad is iconic in Boston, and helped launch Italian Americans and their food into America's homes. That ...

Anthony Martignetti, an Italian immigrant who dashed through the streets of Boston and into the memory of millions of television viewers as the 12-year-old boy summoned home to a spaghetti dinner by ...

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In 1969, a TV commercial for spaghetti started airing in the eastern United States. It began like this. That is Mary Fiumara leaning out of a window in Boston's Little Italy, calling to her TV son ...