Word: gina
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After last week's Carnegie Hall concert (also on the program: Pianist Gina Bachauer), weary Conductor Barbirolli faced the audience. Said he: "My dear friends, you can imagine that it is not without great emotion that I return . . . You have made me a very happy man. God bless you." Whereupon Sir John stepped down and threw his arms around the concertmaster...
...only American taxpayer getting weary of digging deep to pay for foreign aid to countries whose feeble efforts to collect income taxes from their own citizens reminds one of a Keystone Cops comedy [Sept. 1]? It's a shame that Gina Lollobrigida isn't as generously endowed with a sense of civic duty as she is with anatomy...
...printed inexact facts about the income-tax figure of my wife, Gina Lollobrigida. Your figure of $18,583 for 1957 represents the net tax to be paid by Signora Lollobrigida at the request of the Comnne di Roma (municipal administration of the city of Rome), which has fixed the taxable income for 1957 at approximately $128,000. MILKO SKOFIC...
...anomalies. Recognizing that poverty always has its claims on the rich, the U.S. could observe, in Latin America and the Middle East, that poor nations often had some mighty extravagant spenders among them. Italy had its 2,000,000 unemployed -and its rich who escape honest taxation. Wealthy Actress Gina Lollobrigida made the headlines last week by reporting a taxable income of only $18,583 for 1957, but she was only the prettiest rather than the most flagrant practitioner of a well-established Italian habit...
...kept stonily silent in his pink palace. After all, Monaco was still Monaco, and royalty had other duties to perform. For one thing, there was the gala $23-a-plate dinner and world film premiere of Kings Go Forth for the benefit of the Monegasque Red Cross. Everyone from Gina Lollobrigida to Frank Sinatra. Noel Coward and Bette Davis was there. At the last moment, however, two of the star attractions, those old-shoe American tourists. Mr. and Mrs. Harry S. Truman of Independence, Mo., sent word that they could not make...