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Inner Space & Pluck. Thus primed, the talent scouts welcomed buxom Contralto Francesca Friedlander, a Czechoslovakian refugee in a Moravian peasant costume, who explained that "on this beautiful morning I am going to bring you our rivers. I wish you to hear our country, that you should smell our woods, feel our Slavic heart." She belted out a couple of rousing folk songs, wound up with a teary Tenderly that touched every expatriate-loving heart (fee: $50-$80). Pretty Roslyn Rensch, harpist ("a program of rare charm and beauty for discriminating audiences"), strummed out Believe Me if All Those Endearing Young...
Johns Hopkins File 7 (ABC, 11:30-12 noon). Great artists-Griinewald, Bellini, Duccio, Piero della Francesca-and their versions of the resurrection...
...Whisper as "Hollywood's Number One Madam," also said that she baited Bandleader Desi (I Love Lucy) Arnaz with two girls in order to "bring up to date" a story she had sold the magazine about a night she had spent with him in 1944. Rushmore said that Francesca de Scaffa. ex-wife of Actor Bruce Cabot, not only passed on a tip she had obtained in bed with one star but offered to have an "affair with any man" to swell the magazine's story list...
Women! Pietro's uncle the priest gave his blessing as the women started out, and when they reached the bridge, nine members of Francesca's class of illiterates were on hand-but not to bid her goodbye. "Stop!" one of them ordered, "or we shoot." Francesca leaped toward the bridge, but one of the men caught her arm and dragged her back. The other women tried to free her, but could not. While three of the attackers stood with leveled guns, two of the bullies dragged the schoolteacher into the wood. Six days later, the carabinieri found...
...story was not ended yet. Last week, when the happy wedding party arrived in Reggio Calabria to make their final plans, Francesca the bride slipped away from her husband-to-be, ran to the police, retracted all her former statements, and accused Pietro of rape. "They will kill me now, I suppose," she said as the police took the mayor into custody, "but I would rather die than marry...