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...long as the tiny (pop. 12,000) Republic of San Marino in northern Italy could make money selling its postage stamps to philatelists, it was happy. It also picked up a few dollars from tourists curious to see a nation of 38 mountainous square miles which calls itself the oldest republic (1,650 years) in the world. Nobody cared that for the past six years the Republic of San Marino had been Communist-run, the only Stalinist state outside the Iron Curtain...
...years ago, when San Marino's freespending Reds ran the country's budget into the red, the Communist government adopted a capitalistic trick: it repealed an old law against gambling and granted a nine-year gambling concession to a group of Genoese financiers. The gamblers put up an 800 million-lira casino and a couple of hotels and promised to pay San Marino a cut of a million lire ($1,600) a day. The Communists piously forbade San Marinese themselves to enter the casino, relied upon a steady stream of wealthy, land-owning Italians and foreign tourists. Said...
Italy's sculpture is in the midst of a postFascist renaissance. Milan boasts two sculptors good enough to rival any now living: Giacomo Manzú (TIME, Sept. 25) and Marino Marini (TIME, Feb. 27, 1950). Rome has 37-year-old Pericle Fazzini, who is every bit as able. Last week Rome honored its own with a big Fazzini exhibition in the Barberini Palace...
...recognized in 47 states (New York excepted) by the National Boxing Association. *The champions: Heavyweight Ezzard Charles, Light-Heavyweight Maxim, Middleweight Robinson, Welterweight Bratton, Lightweight Ike Williams, Featherweight Sandy Saddler. South Africa's Vic Toweel, a white man, holds the bantamweight title, and Hawaii's Dada Marino the flyweight...
...Blondell heads an extensive stage show. Peggy Ryan and Ray MacDonald present a number of cute dance routines and Bert Wheeler gives an amusing recitation of "What is a Boy!" Singer Eddie Fisher does remarkable things with a voice worn thin by overwork--or emotion. Hank Ladd and the Marino Sisters, three acrobats with plenty of bounce to the ounce, round out the cast...