Word: isotta
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...seaside villa in Santa Marinella, Italy, some 20 photographers arrived to record the latest production of Ingrid Bergman and Roberto Rossellini: the debut of their 21-day-old twin daughters, christened Isotta Ingrid Frieda Giuliana and Isabella Fiorella Elettra Giovanna...
Born. To Cinemactress Ingrid (Joan of Arc) Bergman, 36, and Director Roberto (The Miracle) Rossellini, 46: twin girls, their second and third children, her third and fourth, his fourth and fifth. Names: Isabella Fiorella (6 Ibs. 15 oz.; 6:30 p.m.) and Isotta Ingrid (7 Ibs. 1 oz.; 7 p.m.); in Rome...
...Purdy is not living on all cylinders himself, because he does not yet own a Lancia (only a handful of U.S. fanciers do), but by Kings of the Road standards he is not doing so badly: he owns and drives a 1927, two-seater Bugatti. He also owns an Isotta-Fraschini '28, a Peugot '14, and even a comparatively Johnny-come-lately Citroën 1939. He has also owned a Mercer Raceabout two-seater, vintage 1912, a real American beau ty. To drive a 1912 Mercer, says Purdy, is to feel "the movement of a horse under...
...staff (Italian employees run into the thousands). The company uses Italian equipment in making the drink (as in the U.S., Coca-Cola restricts itself to the sale of syrup, leaving the more profitable bottling operation to local businessmen), employs Italian printers for advertising and uses Italian trucks for distribution. Isotta Fraschini has just produced a truck which the company thinks is better-looking than the American design, and which it plans to export to company branches in other countries...
...been solidly established in the theater for some five years, luscious Lucius Beebe, self-made expert on the art of splendiferous living, hailed a master of the art: "It is really the simple things of life which give pleasure to Mr. Porter-half-million-dollar strings of pearls, Isotta motor cars, cases of double bottles of Grand Chambertin '87, suites at Claridge's, brief trips aboard the Bremen, a little grouse shooting ... He is on all the first-night lists, Leon at L'Aperitif salutes him as 'Highness,' he is reputed to travel with...