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Dates: during 1960-1969
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France, on his way to Switzerland. Then, in a Fiat borrowed in Vienna, he may have driven to Venice, where he reportedly registered at Hotelâ Bauer Grunwald as Renato Stafani. In Milan, he is supposed to have registered at the Grand Hotel Duomo using his wife's maiden name of Silva. He was rumored to have visited a Florence art gallery, from there reported ly drove on to Rome and an unidentified friend's villa at Ostia, 20 miles from Rome, where a Brazilian embassy spokes man helpfully announced: "I can't even tell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Brazil: Wherefore Art Thou, J | 1/6/1961 | See Source »

Output: 20,000. The son of a barber in London's Maiden Lane, Turner never got enough education to make him sure of his grammar or his diction, but he was turning out competent drawings at the age of twelve which his proud father peddled to customers for one to three shillings. Two years later, in 1789, young Turner was admitted as a student to the Royal Academy at a council meeting presided over by the redoubtable Sir Joshua Reynolds. He was a small fuss-budget of a boy with unruly long curls and a large nose. He seldom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Prodigal Landscapist | 11/28/1960 | See Source »

...French President and a special envoy of the Sultan of Turkey were on the flag-bedecked platform at Paris' Care de I'Est when the Orient Express chugged proudly off on its maiden trip to Constantinople in 1883. On that first trip, the 2,000-odd miles took six days and six hours, what with all the border ceremonies and crowds along the track.* The seats had velvet covers topped by Brussels lace, and lush damask .curtains hung from the windows; the fittings were of solid oak and mahogany; on the outside of every car was a coat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EUROPE: Off Goes the Orient Express | 10/31/1960 | See Source »

...Buddy (CBS) unleashes cascades of canned laughter that are so at variance with the vapid comedy on -the screen that the ear automatically dials out the sound in defense of sanity. The story involves boyish Buddy, a rising young executive (Frank Aletter), entrapped in the fuddled care of two maiden aunts (Doro Merande and Enid Markey) who are so naive and troublesome that they should be put out of harm's way before the series gets much older. Script credit goes to one George Tibbies, who may add a new word to show-business lingo. Entertainments of this sort...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: The New Shows | 10/24/1960 | See Source »

...least as much wear and tear as her fighting bulls. When the reader meets pretty, pregnant, unmarried Eulalia trudging toward the Catalan fishing village that cast her out months before, the outcome of Author Salisachs' novel is not hard to predict. Sure enough, 300 pages later the tarnished maiden lies dead from loss of blood in a seaside cave, her squalling love child beside her. The man she adored vainly (he of high degree, she of low) has been beaten to death, and the man who loved her vainly is jailed for murder. The cruel sun beats down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mixed Fiction, Oct. 17, 1960 | 10/17/1960 | See Source »

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