Word: bambino
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...says. "It doesn't bother me." There is more dignity in his presence now, though he can still be ol' "Bom"?a childhood nickname, taken from "Bambino," that his oldest friends remember?standing there beside the backyard barbecue pit, swathed in an apron and holding a Manhattan on the rocks as he contemplates his prized swimming pool. That scene is increasingly rare. Though he still manages to swim before breakfast and before going to bed, almost all his waking hours are spent before congressional committees, at press conferences, or in one of the endless Pentagon meetings...
...jumped at the opportunity to buy up distribution rights for the U.S. Renamed "Little Brother," the doll has a sweet angelic face, is, in fact, modeled after a Verrocchio Renaissance cherub in the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence, and has the normal, diminutive male genitalia of a four-month-old bambino...
France's Jean Anouilh will have two plays on Broadway. Poor Bitos, which was a hit in London, stars Donald (The Caretaker) Pleasence. Traveller Without Luggage is a tragicomedy about an amnesia victim. The Plaster Bambino, Sidney Michaels' second entry (with Ben Franklin), is one of the season's most intriguing dramas. The script, about a con man's production of the Passion Play, combines vaudeville, burlesque, music and a speaking chorus...
...introduced besuboru to Japan by bringing Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Jimmy Foxx and Lefty O'Doul to the Orient for a barnstorming tour. An ultranationalist fanatic later hefted a broadsword and hacked a 16-in. scar into the left side of his head for permitting foreigners like the Bambino to desecrate sacred Meiji Stadium, but Shoriki went on to form Japan's first professional baseball league. In the early '50s he popularized television by planting 220 receivers in key public areas, soon had so many sponsors clamoring for broadcast time that he turned a profit the very...
...Christmas Day, John made the first visit outside the Vatican since his illness?to the Bambino Gesu Hospital for children on nearby Janiculum Hill. There he spent 40 minutes walking from ward to ward and speaking personally to almost every child. He talked to them about his own illness. To the doctors and children at Bambino Gesu, he said: "You see, I am in perfect condition. Oh, I am not yet ready to run any races or enter in contests, but in all I am feeling well." Nonetheless, the feeling persisted in Rome that he is still far from well...