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...arms when Gronchi laid a wreath on the tomb of the Unknown Soldier, and the National Gallery of Art stayed open after closing time to accommodate Gronchi's handsome signora. At the gallery Gronchi told his guides how much he admired its selections from the work of his countryman, Fra Angelico, and then he made a comment about the U.S. that was calculated to echo in Italy: "One visit like this is more than enough to dispel the erroneous idea prevalent in Europe that the American idea is to use money to get money. I find that...
...second time in three years no U.S. tennis player was good enough to get to the finals of the National Indoor Tennis championships. Playing the best tennis of his career, Sweden's young Ulf Schmidt upset his countryman Sven Davidson (1954's winner) in Manhattan...
...meters in 3:40.8 (shared by his countryman, Laszlo Tabori), 3,000 meters in 7:55.6, 2 miles in 8:33.4, 3 miles in 13:14.2 and 5,000 meters in 13 :4O.6...
...Pace-Setter Chris Chataway, the man who used to make a business of helping other runners hang up records, hung up a world-beater for himself. At London's White City stadium, Chataway swapped pacing chores every quarter mile with his countryman Derek Ibbotson, took off on his own in the last half mile of a three-mile race and broke the tape in 13:23.2-3.2 seconds faster than the record held by Russia's Vladimir...
...Mulligan Guards than Caruso warble his entire repertoire." Harrigan and Hart the merry partners, were the ruling entertainment team of the New York stage from 1871 through 1885. Declared a New England guide book of the period: "A visit to New York would be as incomplete to the countryman if he did not see Harrigan and Hart as if he had by some strange mistake missed going to Central Park...