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...Place of Sugars"), a city already centuries old. Rebuilt, Samarkand became one of the central depots on the great Silk Road from Byzantium to China, and flourished as a brilliant seat of Arab civilization, only to be destroyed again by Genghis Khan. Near the end of the 13th century, Marco Polo reported it once more a "very great and eminent city," and 100 years later Tamerlane made it the capital of his empire, which stretched from the Hellespont to the Ganges, and from Siberia to the Persian Gulf...
...Chronicle, under Publisher Charles Thieriot and Executive Editor Scott Newhall, has moved toward the top spot among San Francisco newspapers with an unequaled array of columnists specializing in sophisticated spice (TIME, April 13). But the danger of sex becoming mere smut is sharply illustrated in the case of Count Marco, newest member of the Chronicle's stable of columnists...
...Born Marco Spinelli in Pittsburgh (his father is an Italian count, but Marco will not inherit the title, blandly admits that his use of it is "crass and commercial"), wispy, mustachioed Count Marco, 41, is a widower, an ex-actor (he played the fool in Twelfth Night), ex-producer of television soap operas, ex-hairdresser. His column "Beauty and the Beast," smirkingly instructs San Francisco housewives on all manner of boudoir-and-bathroom behavior. A prize example...
Defending his newest columnist against growing criticism, Editor Scott Newhall says loftily: "The column is aimed at the American wife who is approaching a more mature age, and affords her a chance to restore some of the excitement she had in her younger years. Count Marco is writing around the brink of a great big Freudian abyss." Where Editor Newhall may be going wrong in his circulation drive is in mistaking a sewer for an abyss...
...Hailstorm. In 1482, after eight years of training, the young friar was appointed lecturer to the Dominican Convent of San Marco in Florence. The pulpit orator whose thundering was to keep a city in terror, and who seldom spoke to fewer than 15,000 people in his great years, wrote of his beginnings: "I had neither voice, vigour, nor talent for preaching; indeed, my sermons bored everyone...