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Raphael Demos, a retired Harvard professor and an authority on Plato, died Thursday of a heart attack aboard the S.S. Anna Maria, shortly before it arrived in New York...
...visitors to the town, an hour's drive northwest of Cannes, usually came to view its medieval ruins-a chateau, a church, towers and gates that had decayed into an exquisite stone latticework. In 1961, Bargème found a benefactress-or rather, Madame Germaine De Maria, now 56, found Bargème. Their relationship has led to more distress than Bargème has known in several centuries...
Modest Retreat. "I have enjoyed everything a rich woman can have in life," Madame De Maria announced after a visit. "And all I desire now is a modest retreat where I can read and reflect. I'd like to be able to chat with a shepherd in a field at sundown and munch hard-boiled eggs." With that, she asked the town fathers to let her pay for the restoration of Bargème's ruins and take up residence in the town...
...give a hoot about any culture minister," said Isnard. "We are masters in our own village." He told Madame De Maria that her "presence in Bargème has been a catastrophe for this village." Last week he issued a decree of his own: if Malraux's decision is not reversed, "we will make Bargeme as ugly a village as we know how." As a start, he threatened to paint every building in the village red, blue and green...
...MARIA CALLAS (Angel 3502, 3508). Bellini's 1 Puritani and Puccini's Tosca: the Greek-American soprano in her prime...