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Nary another New Year's Eve blast in Rome could boast so satiny a sommelier. Beautifully intent and just a trifle bubbly, Sophia Loren, 28, uncorked 1963 by filling the crystal goblets of such whoopee-minded friends as Actors David Niven, Peter Sellers and Party Giver Vittorio De Sica. Then it was the twist until 2 a.m., when Sophia and Husband-in-Spirit Carlo Ponti, 49, decided to call it a night and headed for home. "I'm an early sleeper," said Sophia, "and it is already too late...
...clothes, apparently, at an upholstery shop on Third Avenue. What to give her for Christmas? Black despair, then inspiration: she likes to read, and her taste would be exactly suited by Morte d'Urban, J. F. Powers' witty novel of a worldly priest. The gift giver visits a bookstore and returns well satisfied...
...Zelda Fitzgerald wowed them in the '20s with her midnight dips in the pool outside Manhattan's Hotel Plaza. Planted before a fountain set up in the Plaza's ballroom for the Renaissance Ball, a society smash for the benefit of Italian orphans and students, Party-Giver Maxwell did an improbable impersonation of Anita Ekberg's sexy splashings in La Dolce Vita, wound up by tossing the toy cat she was holding to the audience. "Even at my age," said she, "I am perfectly willing to make a fool of myself." Dark days were upon...
...Need to Give. More often, ministers and priests who seek to promote tithing emphasize man's need to give, rather than God's need for cash. Tithing thus becomes an act of worship, expressing the giver's personal commitment to God. Says Dr. John Anschutz of Washington's Christ Episcopal Church Georgetown: "We emphasize not so much tithing as the convinced Christian's need to take a serious look at what stewardship really means: it is a definite commitment, a very real investment of one's time, talent and treasure. Tithing is a small...
...Internal Revenue Service has made Lorenzo the Magnificent look like a piker. The law, tolerantly enough, lets people give paintings to a museum, take current appraised value as a deduction from taxable income, then keep the paintings in their homes for life (TIME, Nov. 24). But many a giver wants to get an extra measure of tax advantage by inflating the value of the gift. The method is to get an "expert" to pin a false appraisal on the work; the Government has not often questioned the appraisals. In one case, a dealer sold a painting...