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Novelist Graham Greene has said of her Vipers oj Milan (a melodramatic yarn where sin triumphs over virtue), which he read as a child: "From that moment I began to write . . . It was as if I had been supplied once and for all with a subject...
...Milan last year, Art Critic Lionello Venturi paused before The Martyrdom of St. Matthew, famed masterpiece of 17th century Michelangelo da Caravaggio. Venturi had seen the painting often before in Rome's dimly lit church of San Luigi dei Francesi. But this time, aided by the strong artificial light of the Milan gallery, where it was on loan, he thought he saw a vague overlapping of paint surfaces around the fallen figure of St. Matthew. He persuaded government art authorities to X-ray the canvas...
Brethren-in-Law. In Milan, Tenn., when First Baptist Church Deacon Henry Martin reported that a car was blocking his driveway, the violator, another First Baptist Church deacon, was fined by the city judge, chairman of the First Baptist Church deacons...
...Died. Milan Grol, 76, pre-World War II leader of Yugoslavia's Democratic party; in Belgrade. In 1945 he returned from wartime exile in London, became a titular Vice Premier, but with no actual power. When he realized that Tito was using his name as a liberal "front" while actually tightening the reins of dictatorship, he predicted gloomily that the Communists would wreck the country...
...heightens his fantasy with a cast of unbelievable, but highly amusing characters, a grouchy tramp who longs to possess a silk hat, an effervescent, scatterbrained old woman, who dies and becomes an equally bouncing angel, and a weak-kneed general. To put across such unreal nonsense as Miracle in Milan, all the actors must show no signs of farcical acting. Since they do not, the motion picture is delightful...