Word: colonna
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Fifteen years after she started flying around the world as the singing attraction in the Bob Hope troupe, Langford gets a TV "special" all to herself; Hope will be on hand, and so will Hugh O'Brian, Julie London, Edgar Bergen, George Sanders and Jerry Colonna...
...Hope Buick Show (NBC, 9-10 p.m.). Everybody wants to get into Hope's act, including Gina Lollobrigida, Jerry Colonna, Hedda Hopper. The show was filmed in Europe, during Hope's recent flying visit to U.S. military bases...
...medieval Rome, when swords were drawn in factional street fighting, the battle cries of the two most powerful families were "Orsini for the church!" and "Colonna for the people!" For more than a millennium the princely Orsinis have stood firmly beside the Vatican; tradition credits them with five Popes, 18 saints, 40 cardinals. Eleven Orsini women became queens; Orsini men married twelve daughters of kings and emperors. In 1725 Pope Benedict XIII sought to end the continuous feuding between Orsini and Colonna by ordering that the leader of each house should alternate as his Prince Assistant at Mass and other...
...Vatican State Secretariat had the last word. Said an official spokesman: "The rank of Prince Assistant to the Holy See will be filled by Aspreno Colonna alone. It is to be expected that Filippo Orsini will have sufficient respect for himself and for others not to show himself at the Vatican again...
...another-the big parade of singers, dancers and actors has been programed without any overlapping: ¶ NBC and Rexall Drug Co. will try spreading some elfin cheer (6:30 to 7:30 p.m., E.D.T.) with a $325,000 "free treatment" of Pinocchio, with Walter Slezak, Fran Allison, Jerry Colonna, Stubby Kaye, Savoyard Martyn Green, and as the wooden hero, Mickey Rooney, 35. Says Scriptwriter Yasha Frank: "It's corny, but corn is the staff of entertainment life." ¶ CBS's The Edsel Show (8 to 9 p.m., E.D.T.) will crowd The Ed Sullivan Show...