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...Prize, the French equivalent of Hollywood's Oscar, in 1954, and about the same time had her nose fixed up by Paris surgeons. "I would give up everything for my career," she says, "and I mean everything." She has a speaking voice that would send her back to Genoa if her fans ever got to hear it. ¶ Rossana Podesta (35, 21, 33) stands 5 ft. 4 in., has dark hair and eyes, and is about the nearest thing the Italians have to Terry Moore. Born in Tripoli, North Africa, she wanted to be a doctor until...
...ways of art experts are usually cautious and often strange. A case in point is the history of a small oil Pieta at the Palazzo Bianco in Genoa. In 1893 the painting bore a label boldly attributing it to Rubens. Later, when critics questioned the label, the museum withdrew the painting from view. In 1910 it went on exhibit again, cautiously identified as a "school of Rubens" work. In 1920 the authorities relabeled the painting "Unknown. From school of Rubens?" By 1928 they had lost all confidence, reattributing the canvas to an "unknown Genoese of the 18th century." Back...
...Meal tickets for dining in some of Italy's best restaurants at a fixed price of $3.75 went on sale in travel agencies. Each coupon entitles a tourist to a complete dinner with entertainment and tips (drinks extra) in any of 23 listed restaurants in Rome. Palermo, Florence, Genoa, Milan, Turin, Venice and Viareggio...
While taking his ease at an inn in Genoa, Author Ernest Hemingway paused over his coffee and wine when asked about his brush with crocodiles and treetops during his two recent African plane crashes, then recalled his pain with a curdled face for the benefit of a photographer. Reported title of Papa's forthcoming African memoirs: Gin Is Not for Little Children...
...asked by newsmen whether she will visit the U.S. Geneviève was all for the idea, but her hopes so far are pinned on "a letter telling me that a group of Congressmen were hoping to invite me as an official guest of the U.S." Word drifted around Genoa that Egypt's deposed King Farouk, whose loutish antics have endeared him no more to Italians than to the Egyptians he liberated by departing, had not exactly been blackballed for membership in the elite local yacht club. The club's 12-man council merely dropped him a registered...