Word: maggie
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...Date, exploits the callow conversations of college boys and tittering models. Plump, pretty Eloise McElhone employs the standard feminine TV equipment of an indefatigable smile, a capacity for continual astonishment ("Is that so?" "You don't say!"), and the ability to talk endlessly about nothing. Willowy, fashion-plated Maggi McNellis, with Leave It to the Girls, represents the loftiest intellectual flights previously achieved by TV women; Maggi's show features a panel of four intimidating ladies in low bodices, who alternate between badgering a male guest and solving such deep questions as "Can a romance that is dead...
...only places where no one could understand us. Generally comprehension increased if you asked for "viskey" instead of "whiskey," but shopping remained a difficulty. We once solved the problem by inducing a black marketer who wanted to change a few guilders to help us buy the routine quota of Maggi soup, meat, and bisquets before entering monetary negotiations...
...panels lately found under the Palazzo della Cancelleria, incidentally the most impressive artistic discovery made in Rome since the days of the Renaissance. In reporting that the main figure on the panels was the morose Emperor, TIME (June 12) was repeating an early opinion of their discoverer, Dr. Filippo Maggi. Yesterday, before the Pontifical Academy of Archeology, Dr. Maggi corrected himself, proved to many, but not all, the academicians' satisfaction that the emperor in question is Vespasian, that perhaps another figure in the marble pageant is Domitian. The Cancelleria discovery, made and handled by reticent Vatican scholars...
Bushy-haired, Rome-born Maestro Sal-maggi has presented grand opera for many a year. Great & good friend of the late Enrico Caruso ("with him I was like a brother"), onetime mandolin teacher to the late Italian Queen Margherita, all his life a musician & music promoter, Maestro Salmaggi nevertheless has no love for an age that has reduced music largely to phonographs, radios. Feeling no musician can avoid the temptation of thus being reproduced he cries with Latin vehemence: "I would rather have a boy of mine [he is nine times a father] be a barber than a musician. Anybody?...