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...Angeles, another TV performer was charging a sponsor with excessive timidity. J. Carrol Naish, star of Life with Luigi, complained that Sponsor General Foods last week dropped the high-rated (39.7%) show largely because two scripts had offended 1) utility companies and 2) stockbrokers. One show had Luigi pitted against a power company that wanted to cut down a tree in his backyard; the other depicted Luigi as the troublesome owner of one share of stock in a big corporation. Snorted Naish, a Taft Republican: "The idea that I would countenance any subversive ideology on my show is ridiculous...
...Milan last year, Art Critic Lionello Venturi paused before The Martyrdom of St. Matthew, famed masterpiece of 17th century Michelangelo da Caravaggio. Venturi had seen the painting often before in Rome's dimly lit church of San Luigi dei Francesi. But this time, aided by the strong artificial light of the Milan gallery, where it was on loan, he thought he saw a vague overlapping of paint surfaces around the fallen figure of St. Matthew. He persuaded government art authorities to X-ray the canvas...
...Dulles and Harriman (see cut). When the Italian government spotted the cartoon it began a criminal action against the editor, since under Italian law insults to the Pope are punishable by the government. But it could not get its case into court. Reason: the New Ways' editor is Luigi Longo, hard-bitten leader of Italy's Communist partisans during the war, and now No. 2 man in the country's Communist Party; as a member of the Chamber of Deputies, he claimed parliamentary immunity. For five years the Chamber muffled every move to bring Longo to trial...
...under 2,000 Ibs.) aluminum-bodied racer at a 160-m.p.h. clip over stretches of the final lap. Kling's overall average: 102 m.p.h., shattering the 1951 Ferrari record of 88.09 m.p.h. Hermann Lang, Le Mans winner, brought his Mercédès in second, followed by Luigi Chinetti in a Ferrari. The stock-car race was even more of a runaway for the 1953 Lincolns (see BUSINESS). The 205-h.p. Lincolns, mounting four-barrel carburetors and heavy-duty shock absorbers, were led by A.A.A. Champion Driver Chuck Stevenson with a 90.96 m.p.h. average. Lincolns finished...
Composer Valentino Bucchi's measured music was a careful reflection of medieval modes. Massine, reported Rome's // Messaggero, has "knelt to the spirituality of his subject." The local clergy was, on the whole, fascinated. The next day Monsignor Luigi Piastrelli commended the perform ance from his pulpit...