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Hailed at first as a way to bring the Bible closer to the people, Vignal's La Bibbia soon encountered more trials than Job. The Italian Rabbinical Council denounced La Bibbia as "sacrilege"; Milan's Roman Catholic Cardinal Montini withdrew the nihil obstat of the church. Sales slumped, and ugly rumors grew that Vignal's crew of actors, who posed for the crude Biblical scenes, lived private lives of less than Biblical probity...
Last week Milan cops arrested Vignal, unmasked him as one Giuseppe Tosini, well known to Roman law authorities as a swindler, cigarette smuggler, drunk and vagrant wanted on four counts. La Bibbia's fate-Tosini had two years worth of Scripture scripts-was left in doubt. To get the public and the Bible closer together, said Monsignor Enrico Galbiati, Milan's Roman Catholic ecclesiastical censor, it will be necessary to bring the public level up rather than drag the Bible down...
This photographic and popularized version of the Scriptures, approved by the Vatican, is outselling in Italy the Holy Bible itself. It appears in La Bibbia (The Bible), a Milanese fumetto magazine, named for the fumetti, or "little puffs of smoke," in which, as in U.S. cartoon balloons, the dialogue drifts above the heads of the characters...
With a few exceptions like La Bibbia, Italy's fumetti are sentimental soap-opera plots, as pure as they are lathery. Successively framed by the camera, the young lovers march inexorably toward an impassive clinch. Sex, violence and nudity are fumetti taboos, partly in concession to a Roman Catholic women's association, which charged in 1951 that the magazines were corrupting Italian youth. Bosoms are thoroughly draped, although now and then a generously endowed film star, like Marisa Allasio, may present problems...
Connor clocked such a fast first run that Bibbia made a dangerous mistake trying to catch up and came to woe at Shuttlecock. With Bibbia disqualified, Doug Connor was an easy winner and once more the undisputed champion of Cresta...