Word: italianized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Then, in New York, an eccentric old millionaire decided to give 75% of his fabulous collection of Italian art, valued conservatively at $25 million, to the gallery. While Samuel Henry Kress stripped his warehouses and the walls of his Fifth Avenue penthouse of their treasures, the gallery's decorators hastily revised their plans to provide a fitting decor for the new acquisitions. President Franklin Roosevelt wrote a grateful letter to Kress, and when the National Gallery opened, comfortably furnished with masterpieces, it was a sensation...
...last week as Argentina's new President, replacing deposed Strongman Juan Perón: Major General Eduardo Lonardi. 59, a career officer whose name was unknown to most of his countrymen one week earlier Origins. Born Sept. 17, 1896. in Buenos Aires, son of a music teacher of Italian descent. Family name was originally Leonardi Military Career. Graduated from the national military academy as artillery lieutenant. Taught tactics at Superior War College in 1930s. Appointed Argentine military attaché in Santiago, Chile in 1943, where he succeeded Colonel Juan Perón who had been suspected of espionage...
...number of English, French, and Italian films imported into this country in the last few years has been so great that it is easy to forget anyone else in Europe is making any pictures at all. But the few Swedish movies that have trickled in the great flood prove that the big three don't have the same monopoly over quality which they seem to possess over quantity. Such films as Torment and The Great Adventure reveal the Swedes as masters of photographic technique with a special flair for subtle psychological themes...
...Room's stock of American charts is complemented by the more modern collection of the Institute of Geographical Studies. Twentieth century surveyors, colonial mapmakers, as well as ancient French, Italian and Korean cartographers all contribute toward making the room in Widener worthy of a rainy afternoon visit. Those who are neither scholars nor tourists will enjoy the colored pictures...
...Europe's shapeliest stars, Italian Cinemactress Silvana Pampanini (37-23-36), flew from Rome to the U.S. for a week of personal appearances in Denver's "Festival of Italy." "It isn't true," La Pampanini loudly cried, "that I think American men are lousy lovers. All the Americans I've met," she murmered, in a graceful non sequitur, "have been very fine and admirable...