Word: margherita
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When the Rossellini baby was born last February in the guarded seclusion of Rome's Villa Margherita Clinic, eager-beaver U.S. and Italian photographers fell all over each other in the rush for an exclusive picture of mother & child. Enthusiastic bidders priced their interest at 5,000,000 lire ($8,000), and newsmen tried every imaginable method of invading the clinic, from offering bribes to the nuns on duty to scaling walls and pretending that their own wives were in the maternity division. But nobody got the picture...
...phone in her luxurious Rome apartment. She spoke calmly to tall, handsome Dr. Pier Luigi Guidotti, 32, the family physician of Italian Cinemaestro Roberto Rossellini. As she hung up, the doctor rushed over to drive her to Rome's most modern private clinic, the streamlined Villa Margherita. At 7 p.m., Ingrid gave birth to a plump, blue-eyed...
...days later, plump, curly-haired Dorothy, 26-a soprano hardly anyone in London had ever heard of-found herself in the studio of His Majesty's Voice recording company. The famed star of the Milan Opera, Madame Margherita Grandi, was making a recording of the sleepwalking scene from Verdi's Macbeth. Suddenly, right at the end, Madame Grandi shut her mouth, and Dorothy took over. She sang three notes-F, A flat, and top D flat. For her pains, she got a slight bow from Madame Grandi and 5 guineas ($21.15). Then she went home...
...Queen Mother Margherita visited Maria Montessori's Casa del Bambini. Italian schoolmasters began to try out her methods. Montessori schools mushroomed throughout Europe and the U.S. As she grew older, the Dottoressa's stout figure, in its academic robes, became a familiar sight in lecture halls all over the world. Students crowded to hear her speak at the University of Rome. Mussolini made her an honorary Fascist, but she objected to the way Fascists tried to "warp youth in their own brutal pattern." In 1933, her schools were closed...
...Margherita Clement, comely, 22-year-old Philadelphia socialite, ex-Powers model, smacked a damage suit on the man who last year stabbed her with a paring knife and hit her over the head with a whiskey bottle in the powder room of Philadelphia's Hotel Barclay. (Her attacker, onetime Soldier Socialite Sidney B. Dunn Jr., who gave as his reason, "She won't marry me and I'll fix her or kill her so she won't marry anybody else," is now serving a three-to-seven-year prison term.) Miss Clement asked $25,000 damages...