Word: headful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...caustic-soda bath. After some thought, restorers, under the direction of Florence's Professor Bruno Bearzi, dissolved the statue's lumpy green shell, showed the gilded bronze beneath. Last week San Ludovico stood on his pedestal again in a Manhattan gallery where visitors paid 60? a head to see the ten-foot figure blaze under spotlights in a black-velvet niche...
Perhaps San Ludovico did not represent Donatello's art at its best, but the soft-flowing vestments, meditative young head, and miter adorned with crystals and blue enameling looked good to U.S. gallerygoers. Their money looked mighty good to the Italians who would use it to restore war-damaged landmarks back in Florence. "The art of Florence belongs to the whole world," said one of them last week and, so the world should contribute...
...stars," says Rossellini, "but I have nothing against Miss Bergman because she is a star.") The rest of the cast will be picked up on location. As usual, Rossellini will work without a script; except for a 22-page synopsis, the story's details are all in his head...
...enormous-even though, boylike, he had a personal pride in the misfortune that had suddenly made him special. When, after Johnny's first operation, the surgeon told him what he had, Johnny telephoned his friend, Reviewer Lewis Gannett, and reported proudly: "They drilled three holes right through my head." Two weeks later he exchanged letters with Albert Einstein on the curvature of the universe. When the Book-of-the-Month Club picked Gunther's then unfinished Inside U.S.A. (written largely during the costly attempts to save Johnny's life), he tried to cheer his father with, "Well...
Moritz was an associate professor of Pathology at Western Reserve before coming to the Medical School in 1937 as a traveling fellow of the Rockefeller Foundation. In 1940 he was named head of the Department of Legal Medicine. Under his direction, the department has developed one of the leading crime investigation laboratories in the world...