Word: cicco
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Leopold Stokowski, pale-maned maestro, since 1937 the great & good friend of Greta Garbo, was reported making nightly long-distance calls to Gloria Vanderbilt di Cicco, who just inherited $4,500,000. "Friends" said that she would join him in Mexico as soon as her Reno decree comes through. Gloria and the maestro maintained a Garbo-like silence...
Gloria Vanderbilt di Cicco, who separated from her husband, Pasquale ("Pat") di Cicco, three weeks before she came into an inheritance of some $4,700,000, entrained for Reno's divorce mill, was caught with her guard down by an alert photographer en route...
Gloria Vanderbilt di Cicco, 20, poor little rich girl whose legal troubles began at ten in a noisy custody squabble between her socialite mother (Mrs. Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt) and her sculptress aunt (the late Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney), planned another trip to court. This time she will ask a formal separation from her nightclub-brawling, ex-Army-lieutenant husband, Pat di Cicco, 35, actors' agent. Married at 17, Gloria once observed: "What can one say of a first marriage except that it's wonderful?" Approaching her 21st birthday and a $4.5 million inheritance, she broke the news...
...Cicco, cafe-famed as Gloria Vanderbilt's husband, also as a onetime "assistant wolf," took a double-barreled beating in a Manhattan nightclub. Di Cicco, an Army Air Forces lieutenant, was amusing himself by loudly abusing a small, meek newspaperman. A quiet Texan by the name of Benny Bickers objected. Di Cicco called him something, neglected to smile. Benny knocked him down. Di Cicco left the club, waited for Bickers in the street. When the Texan came out, di Cicco took off his coat, put up his dukes. Benny knocked him down again. What di Cicco learned the hard...
Gloria Vanderbilt di Cicco, often good for a column but never before a columnist, wrote a page of chatter for the New York Journal-American's syndicated magazine Home. Sample: the day after he first met his wife (Actress Carol Marcus), William Saroyan wrote her a poem called Snow. It began: "You are out of the snow of the past-the most beautiful thing in all the snow-the most delicate-the most alone...