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...Rome's Ciampino Airport, Italy's Vice Premier Giuseppe Saragat and nearly i ,000 people crowded around Pan American Flight 156 from New York to honor an Italian returning forever home. From the plane was borne a 990-lb., copper-lined coffin, and that night, in a railway baggage car, the remains of Arturo Toscanini were taken north to Milan...
...Rome's Ciampino airport, beaming Cinemactress Linda (The Happy Time) Christian welcomed her No. 1 boy friend, British Cinemactor Edmund (The Student Prince) Purdom, dreamily pinned a flower on his lapel when he flew in from Spain. Both Linda and Purdom are in the toils of divorce, she from Cinemactor Tyrone Power, formerly one of Purdom's closest pals. But Linda squelched tattle that a classic Hollywood swap is in the works. Purred she: "I hope to have a lasting affection for Edmund, but that's as far as it goes." Less than a month after...
...along the serviceable roadbed of the old Appian Way, now called "Appia Antica" to distinguish it from a more up-to-date Appian Way running in the same direction. The 20th century, like those that preceded it, has left its mark on the ancient road. Rome's busy Ciampino airport lies only 200-odd yards away. Near a group of ancient Roman tombs, Actress Silvana Mangano has built herself a spanking new Hollywood-type villa, complete with swimming pool. Across the way from the Church of Domine Quo Vadis?, where tradition holds that Jesus appeared to the wavering Apostle...
...scheduled flight from London to Johannesburg. Barely 16 days had elapsed since BOAC lifted the ban that had grounded its Comet fleet following the last fatal crash (TIME, Jan. 18), but Yoke Yoke's 21 passengers were brimming with confidence. Waiting for take-off at Rome's Ciampino Airport, one of the three Americans, a Massachusetts shoe-parts manufacturer named Ray Wilkinson, said to his companion: "This is progress. Sure, they've had accidents, but everything...
After seven months of it, Narriman looked pale, tired-and tired of it all. Two weeks ago mother-in-law Mme. Assila Sadek flew in from Cairo and flew at the ex-King. Result: Narriman, impassive behind dark glasses, drove to Rome's Ciampino Airport in her red Mercedes-Benz, accompanied by her triumphant mother, also wearing dark glasses. After tearful partings with friends, Narriman the child bride flew off to Switzerland with her mother and her pet poodle, Jou-Jou, but not her son, King Fuad II, heir to the throne. In Geneva she announced that she would...