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From his banyan-shaded terrace, friendly, fleshy, Albano Oliveira, governor of Portugal's tiny colony of Macao, watched purple-sailed junks sailing in from nearby China. He recalled a passage written more than 200 years ago by an English visitor...
Beniamino Gigli, moonfaced, huffy-puffy Italian tenor, whose onetime Nazi friends have given him some uneasy moments since Rome's liberation (TIME, June 19), forked over 50,000 lire ($500) on a threat of kidnapping. He gave the money to one Giuseppe Albano, "Rome's public enemy No. 1," who then sent three men out to kidnap him anyway. The police, tipped off, captured the three henchmen and killed Albano...
...honor of buying the first $1.10 seat, one Tony Albano planted himself at the head of the line 12 days before the ticket window opened, slept in a swivel chair, ate food brought to him by a colored friend with whom he ungraciously refused to be photographed. To reporters he proudly announced that he had been fourth in line in 1933, that he would not sell his place for $50, that he was an unemployed truck driver who had been living on $60-a-month relief for three years and that, while waiting, he had been told that Mrs. Tony...
...large motorcar snorted into the village of Albano, near Rome. Over the hood fluttered a small red flag, bearing the emblem of the Soviet...