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...main virtue is simply the extreme, and now imperiled privacy. When the warehouses close at 6 p.m. and the steel doors clang, the streets go dead. There are no decent restaurants between Houston and the trattorie of Grand Street, five blocks south; the only artists' watering place is Fanelli's, reputedly the oldest continuously operating bar in New York. It has been dispensing draft beer and meatballs to the warehouse workers since the 1870s. It shuts on the stroke of 9, leaving Prince Street (on Saturday nights) to the beery wassailing of the Daughters of Bilitis, a militant...
...Bovio Fanelli is known in his village of Riccia, Italy, as a Communist and militant atheist. When he appeared in church to be godfather at a baptism, the priest, Don Alfonso Manocchio, declared Fanelli unacceptable and refused to baptize the baby. Then and there Communist Fanelli scooped up a pitcher of holy water and poured it on the baby's head, saying: "I baptize you in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost...
...Fanelli committed a grave sin in thus performing a nonclerical baptism in the presence of a priest, said the Vatican last week. But nevertheless, he had made a new Christian. Because baptism is the only means of entry into the Christian community, canon law recognizes the validity of a baptism (according to the correct ritual formula and with the intention to baptize) by anyone-even an infidel...
This summer, two of TIME'S visiting faculty members were from Dartmouth College - George Theriault and Alexander Fanelli (who has since transferred to Mississippi State College). Theriault is a member of the faculty steering committee for Dartmouth's required "Great Issues" course, which introduces seniors to some of the problems the students will face as citizens of their communities. A part of this course is known as "Voices of Issues," an analysis of the way these problems are treated in the press...
Always the Lady. In Chicago, Mrs. Bernice Fanelli complained that her estranged husband broke three of her teeth, answered his countercharge that she smashed his spectacles with: "I am a perfect lady. Before I hit him, I told him he had better take his glasses off." Ivy. In Ocoee, Fla., a Miss Gladys Argo became the bride of Army Sergeant Harvard Yale Princeton...