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...snub intended. The architects and churches: San Francisco's Corpus Christi Roman Catholic Church, Mario J. Ciampi; Clifton, N.J.'s St. Philip the Apostle, Arthur Rigolo; Columbus, Ohio's St. Stephen's Episcopal Church, Brooks and Coddington; Edmond, Okla.'s Hopewell Baptist Church, Bruce Goff; St. Louis' Church of the Resurrection of Our Lord, Murphy and Mackey; Springfield, Mass.'s Congregation Beth El, Percival Goodman; Tucson's Faith Lutheran Church, Arthur T. Brown; Pacific Palisades, Calif.'s St. Matthew's Episcopal Church, A. Quincy Jones and Frederick E. Emmons; Midland...
...Drew Pearson thumped the bongo drums for President Fulgencio Batista too fervently. In return, Havana's leading newspapers and magazines last week were busy thumping Pearson. "If Truman called Drew Pearson a liar," declared Mario Kuchilán in Prensa Libre, "he was being generous." Columnist José Pardo Llada, who once hailed Pearson as an "ideal commentator," wrote in Diario National: "Our illustrious friend Drew Pearson has defrauded us." So fulsome was Pearson's praise for the Batista regime that even a Batista booster, Diario National's Luis Manuel Martinez, objected. He called Pearson a "gringo...
...Avenue admen (one of them worried so much that his hair turned charcoal grey), and the big names of show business whose egos outgrow their talents (favorite targets: Arthur Godfrey, Eddie Fisher, Frank Sinatra). "Wouldn't it be wonderful," observed Sylvester one bright morning, "if Arthur Godfrey hired Mario Lanza and Lanza quit before Arthur could fire...
...Mexico to begin shooting a film version of James M. Cain's Serenade (about the meteoric career in opera of a farm boy who hits the skids in Mexico and is befriended by a Mexican beauty), badboy Tenor Mario Lanza was on his good behavior as he met the press in San Antonio. He explained that he was enthusiastic about making his first picture in three years: "I don't want to be inactive again. Inactivity breeds inactivity...
...this embarrassment of riches, the Venice committee chose 136 oils, attributed only 62 of them to Giorgione or his anonymous followers. Even of these, one called The Three Ages of Man, from Florence's Pitti Gallery, has been attributed at various times to Lotto, Morto da Feltre, Pier Mario Pennacchi, Francesco Torbido, Giambellino, an anonymous Venetian, and Giorgione; five years ago, it hung at another Venice exhibition devoted to the works of Giovanni Bellini...