Word: bianchini
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Stringing Along. In Riva Trigoso, Italy, Giacomino Bianchini won a silver fork for eating 1.1 Ibs. of spaghetti in 34 minutes with his hands tied behind his back...
Manhattan gallery-hoppers found a refreshing change last week from the usual abstract-expressionist slatherings. Rome's Domenico Gnoli, an Old World newcomer of 26. exhibited a sheaf of big, clear-cut, conservative drawings at the Bianchini Gallery, found himself famed and in the money. What attracted critics and buyers alike was Gnoli's obvious mastery, modesty and calm. Though not the greatest virtues possible to art, these qualities are currently rare-and as delightful as cold water after a binge...
...Interest. The son of a carabiniere sergeant, Giambattista Giuffrè, now a bald, bouncy 56, began as a bank clerk and simple family man. Then he branched out. He took a mistress, buxom Rina Bianchini, setting up her cuckolded husband in the haberdashery business. Two years ago, when the husband killed himself, Giuffrè married Rina. During the years he lived in sin with her, Giuffrè served as lay administrator of several Franciscan monasteries. At World War II's end, when money began to flow in Italy again, Bank Clerk Giuffrè set out to go the banks...