Word: andreas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Andrea Doria Settlement...
...Generation. World War II cut the supply of rich vacationers, forced the Badrutts to tighten up; the Kulm was sold to Swiss Businessman Albert Ernst. But the Palace is still run by Hans's widow Helen, and two sons, Andrea and Hansjurg, and a new generation scrawls its names across the guest book: Henry Ford II, Rita Hayworth, Barbara Hutton. For its 400 guests the Palace maintains a staff of 300, including 40 cooks, who daily turn out half a ton of fancy meats and 1,000 pastries. The wine cellar is stocked with 60,000 fine bottles...
Last week, as the New Year's guests began departing for trains to London, Paris, Rome and Vienna, Host Andrea Badrutt said goodbye in six languages, gave each a small bottle of cognac to ease the parting journey. As snow fell onto the white peaks, his mother looked fondly at the flake-filled sky, cried: "Ah, golden rain, golden rain...
When Clare Boothe Luce stepped off the Italian liner Andrea Doria in April, 1953 to become U.S. ambassador to Italy, she walked into a nation in crisis. The Italian national elections were just coming up. Communists and monarchists were closing in from left and right on the teetering Christian Democratic government of Premier Alcide de Gasperi. The Communist daily L'Unita, eager to slander the U.S., hooted at her as a "comicopera ambassador." A rightist magazine hailed her arrival with a full-page cartoon of an American flag trimmed with lace. Last week when Clare Luce, 53, resigned...
...Florentine tempest began blowing up when Italian newspapers, with the sinking of the Andrea Doria fresh in mind, pointed out in alarm that Florence's treasures would be shipped to the U.S. aboard a U.S. Navy transport. Additional qualms were quickly forthcoming. Asked Corriere delta Sera: "Who knows what effect the humidity may have on these paintings, and the packing, the unpacking, the vibrations on shipboard, the handling in America-all grave dangers...