Word: andreas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...squez hangs in the picture gallery. The palace also contains a Claude Lorrain landscape, a Fra Filippo Lippi Annunciation, Caravaggio's Rest on the Flight into Egypt to see and admire. One of the most interesting pictures is a portrait by Sebastiano del Piombo of Admiral Andrea,* the greatest of the Dorias, a buccaneer of a man and a hero of history...
...huge mastiff - and then a princedom "for the dog to run in." The admiral kept his palace staff hopping to the tune of bosun's pipes, once exercised his princely humor by order ing all his silver flung into the sea at a banquet's end. Afterwards Andrea Doria hauled his silver up again, in nets previously spread for the purpose...
...Doria male line was broken last year with the death of Prince Filippo Andrea Doria-Pamphili-Landi, 71. The old prince was the only man in Rome who refused to put out a flag celebrating Mussolini's conquest of Ethiopia, suffered 15 years' confinement under Mussolini, was Rome's first mayor after its liberation. He dreamed of opening his palace to the public, a task that his daughter, Princess Orietta, has now accomplished. Her husband, Britisher Frank Pogson, has traded his own name for Doria-Pamphili to carry on the noble line...
Spotting a CBS program director standing at the bar, he manufactured a name and introduced Pat: "This is Guido Panzini, a survivor of the Andrea Doria. He was on the bridge when it happened...
...picked up a talent for mimicry from his father, a successful nightclub comic of the '30s, and he and his friend used their skill as a "sales adjunct" when they wanted to warm up prospects with a laugh or two. That afternoon in Shor's, the Andrea Doria collision was still in the headlines, so Phillips swung naturally into the Italian...