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...give such an attractive glow to diamonds," he purred. At Irishman Jim Downey's, a celebrated steak house, the light came from Jewish yahrzeit candles, normally used to commemorate the dead. The New York Hilton used 30,000 candles during the long night. So great was the demand that Ajello's candle shop in midtown sold fancy bayberry models at $7.50 a pair?though there were no takers for the 90-lb., hand-dipped model for $150. To make the occasion complete, Mrs. Anthony Ajello, wife of the candlestick maker, had a baby boy in the midst of the blackout?...
Around the world there are dozens of fungi that infect man, animals or the soil, reported the U.S. Public Health Service's Dr. Libero Ajello, and their distribution changed radically during World War II. Species that had been confined to the Asian and Australasian tropics found new hosts in U.S. servicemen on Pacific duty, and Korean orphans carried one species to Europe. Dermatophytology (the study of fungi that infect the skin) may give a valuable assist to anthropology, Dr. Ajello suggested, because a variety prevalent in eastern Asia occurs also among Central American Indians, supporting the theory...
Died. Antonio Ajello, 78, master candlemaker; of a heart attack; in The Bronx, New York. To Mussolini, Pope Pius XI, Lindbergh, Galli-Curci, Marie of Rumania, many another big & little wig have gone sweet-scented Ajello tapers, fashioned from a formula that has been a family secret for 165 years. Most famed Ajello candle, world's largest, is 18 feet high and five feet around, weighs almost a ton, cost $3,700. Raised by public subscription in 1921 as a memorial to Enrico Caruso, it now stands in the Church of Our Lady of Pompeii (Italy), where it burns...
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