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...said the lawyer, was Enrico de Boccard, a writer for Rome's weekly Meridiano d'ltalia, who had reviewed Gina's picture, Achtung Banditi (Beware of Bandits). Wrote De Boccard: "The only thing of any continuity [in the picture] consists of [Gina's] breasts . . . Those breasts, which appear ... to be rather praiseworthy, are presented in all possible ways, in long shots, medium shots, close-up and very closeup, and to give them particular prominence, they have been subjected to a perpetual trembling and wavering . . ." In his agitation, De Boccard failed to mention that Gina was properly...
Italy's Joe DiMaggio is a lean (5 ft. 11 in., 156 Ibs.), hawk-nosed bicycle racer named Fausto Coppi. In 1949 Coppi won bicycling's two biggest races, the Tour de France and the Giro d'ltalia, and was acclaimed "the greatest rider of all time." But the 1950 season was one disaster after another, including a.broken collarbone and a cracked pelvis suffered in bike crashes. Last year Fausto tried a comeback. He suffered, instead, a tremendous setback when he saw his younger brother, Serse, killed in a spill...
Last week Coppi wound up another comeback try in the Giro d'ltalia, a tough, 2,500-mile course, whose 20 laps, raced in 20 days, run over the steep, curling roads of the Alps and Apennines. On the lap from Rome to Rocca di Papa, all uphill, Coppi, his legs pumping like pistons, spurted from eighth to second place. From then on, Coppi's fervent fans hysterically paved his way with flowers, sloshed buckets of water on their sweating idol, painted slogans along the route ("Fausto, you are the only king left...
...delirious fans waited six hours at the Milan finish line last week to welcome their comeback hero, who took down the 1,000,000-lire ($1,600) first prize, plus 285,000 lire in bonuses for lap leads. What was more, Coppi set a new Giro d'ltalia speed record: 34.6 kilometers an hour (21.6 m.p.h...
...singing-but not on his bandy-legged acting. Milan's Il Tempo: "Conley has again proved his excellent vocal technique, his facility in moving among the highest notes," but, added Rome's Il Tempo, "beside [Soprano Callas] he appeared more her page than her promised." L'ltalia found his high notes "bell-like and sure," but his movements "uncertain and indefinite." The Communist L'Unità snarled at his "atrocious pronunciation, insupportable to the Italian ear." But even L'Unità admitted that U.S. Tenor Conley has a voice. His high notes, it said, were...