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...winding staircase, Sabino Giovannoni scraped away at the accumulated layers of soot, grime and whitewash. Slowly, almost reluctantly, the face of a woman began to emerge, a primeval woman who looked remarkably like the Eve in the Sistine Chapel. After several hours, Giovannoni telephoned Medici Chapels Director Paolo dal Poggetto. "Come over quickly," he said. "We've got something important here...
Tourist Swarms. Like many such discoveries, the Michelangelo works were found partly by accident. For years, Dal Poggetto and his colleagues have been worrying about the crowds of tourists-sometimes 4,000 a day-who come swarming into the chapel to see the seven brooding marble statues that Michelangelo carved to commemorate the Dukes Lorenzo and Giuliano de' Medici. There is only one door for the tourists to enter and leave the chapel by way of the crypt...
...three-month-old Bar of America is booming. Reason: an unintentional publicity lift from the Bank of America, which hit with a lawsuit accusing the bar's owners of confusing the public, thereby cashing in on the reputation of the nation's largest bank. Insists Jerry Dal Bozzo, one of five investors in the bar: "We just thought it was a good name...
...July the investors won approval for a $40,000 loan from the Bank of America, only to have it withdrawn when the bank found out the intended name. Dal Bozzo et al. got the money from Crocker National and opened anyway, on Belden Street, half a block away from the bank's towering headquarters. The Bank of America filed its suit and was promptly razzed by Herb Caen, the San Francisco Chronicle columnist...
...proximity of the comfortable, brass-chandeliered bar, say the bank's lawyers, could lead the public to believe that the former is either connected with or endorsed by the latter. Dal Bozzo is rolling along with the momentum...