Word: cicogna
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...profession, which embraces theater sets, commercial art, window displays, religious murals, duplications of old paintings, book illustration and, lately, elevator decorating. Last week Gugel was dabbing away at an elevator set up on the terrace of his studio overlooking the Roman Forum. A well-heeled countess named Anna Maria Cicogna takes Gugel's art seriously enough to have offered him $1,600 to decorate the elevator for a new pink marble palace she is building in Venice...
...Princess Cicogna's the talk was about Allied officers. The English and American officers are darlings too. So helpful. So impressionable. Lieut. General Mark Clark came to dinner. Brigadier General Edgar Erskine Hume, too, who ran that A.M.G. thingamajig...
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