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...Paris on her tenth wedding anniversary, high-strung Operatic Soprano Maria Callas, 35, made a pronouncement between helpings of selle d'agneau à la Callas. Manhattan-born Singer Callas attributed most of her professional success to the offstage support of her Milan tycoon husband, Giovanni Battista Meneghini, 64: "When I met him I was the most ridiculous singer of Italy, and he, a wealthy industrialist who owned 20 building-material plants, said, 'You have the most beautiful voice in the world,' and-thanks to his tenacity, his persuasion and his constant help-I could overcome...
Soon Tom cornered Giovanni Battista Volonté, 53, flashed a press pass at him, told him he was a "policeman," and dragged a signed confession from him. After Volonté sang, Tom located the printing presses where false labels and boxes were made, dragged two more of the gang in and extracted confessions from them too. Then he went to Milan's Police Chief Mario Nardone and handed over his suspects...
...James Sheldon Carey, 47, keeps so busy teaching 100 ceramics students at the University of. Kansas that his own pottery has become almost a Sunday hobby. His heavily textured urn, a $100 prizewinner, is both modest and forceful, both earthy and alert looking. ¶ Italy's Giovan Battista Valentini, 27, gives "no special value" to his $250 prizewinner. "Like others I do, it is made the same way as in Homer's time." With its squared-off underside, made possible by stoneware's hard-baked solidity, the bowl has a look of energy held in suspension like...
Three Slaves. In between are such notables as Caspar Bartholin (1655-1738), who identified the vulvovaginal lubricating glands; Giovanni Battista Morgagni (1682-1771), a versatile anatomist; Friedrich Trendelenburg (1844-1924), who perfected the head-down, hips-up position for surgery on the pelvis; Isidor Clinton Rubin (1883-1958), who devised a way of blowing C02 through the Fallopian tubes as a fertility test; and the team of Selmar Aschheim, 80, and Bernhard Zondek, 67, whose mouse test has answered-millions of times, quickly and accurately-the question: "Am I pregnant...
...church in Latin America in giving cardinals for the first time to Uruguay and Mexico, 2) stiffened the church's position against the Reds by appointing in embattled Berlin a young cardinal renowned for his anti-Communism (see below), 3) honored Milan's popular Archbishop Giovanni Battista Montini by placing his name at the head of the official list of new cardinals, giving him the unofficial title of the new Pope's prima creatura...