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This summer for the first time, travelers to Rome can explore one of the world's loveliest palaces: the Palazzo Doria-Pamphili, on the Corso. One picture gallery has long been public, but now on Tuesdays, Fridays and Sundays, between 11 o'clock and noon, visitors are admitted to a whole succession of magnificent rooms in which every perfect detail seems to breathe history. The mid-18th century Venetian Room with its Murano glass chandelier may well surpass any interior of the same period remaining in Venice itself. The Grand Salon contains a golden cradle that bears eloquent...
Before his death in 1560, at 94, the fleets of this fierce Genoese had many times confirmed his native city as master of the Mediterranean. Doria ships also helped Emperor Charles V in his struggles to win Italy. Charles rewarded him with a huge mastiff - and then a princedom "for the dog to run in." The admiral kept his palace staff hopping to the tune of bosun's pipes, once exercised his princely humor by order ing all his silver flung into the sea at a banquet's end. Afterwards Andrea Doria hauled his silver up again...
Spotting a CBS program director standing at the bar, he manufactured a name and introduced Pat: "This is Guido Panzini, a survivor of the Andrea Doria. He was on the bridge when it happened...
...picked up a talent for mimicry from his father, a successful nightclub comic of the '30s, and he and his friend used their skill as a "sales adjunct" when they wanted to warm up prospects with a laugh or two. That afternoon in Shor's, the Andrea Doria collision was still in the headlines, so Phillips swung naturally into the Italian...
...ANDREA DORIA-STOCKHOLM claims have been settled for total of $6,000,000 in record time (34 months) for a major sea collision. Originally, 3,322 claims against vessels' owners totaled $116 million...