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The committee decided to go Berlioz one better and use ballet to dance out the love he did not put into words. The old Marquis de Cuevas, 70, the world's biggest-spending balletomane, agreed to contribute his own ballet company to the project; the chorus and orchestra of...
Doing Something. Only a threat to the existence and prerogatives of the House disturbs its somnolent air. Reform of the Lords, warned Prime Minister Herbert Asquith more than 40 years ago, "brooks no delay"; only last month Queen Elizabeth herself was again promising "further consideration of the composition of the...
In Washington, Negro newsmen have the right to sit in congressional press galleries, enjoy full press privileges at the White House and in Government offices, and have even been elected to Congress itself. But there is still one inner sanctum where Negro newsmen have never been admitted as members: the...
Mussolini created him a Marshal of Italy, later made him Viceroy of Ethiopia. Summoning the populace to the viceregal palace in Addis Ababa, Graziani stood up to address them when a couple of hand grenades bounced in. Graziani fell, crying, "They've killed me." Every Italian who had a...
1) FRANCESCO GONZAGA, FOURTH MARQUIS OF MANTUA, by Ferrara's ERCOLE ROBERTI, imprisons a princely child in a formal 15th century portrait without robbing him of boyishness. (The Samuel H. Kress Collection )