Word: neapolitan
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...Started in Naples. Clark Gable occasionally gets upstaged by a somewhat younger performer, Marietto, 9, in a rowdy, frequently funny Neapolitan holiday also boasting Sophia Loren and Vittorio De Sica...
...Russians say that they have none. But in Italy, the question dogs the Communists in every election. In the Neapolitan district of Mergellina, an association of several hundred mothers holds regular meetings and petitions Parliament for word of their sons in Russia. When Italy's President Giovanni Gronchi was in Moscow last month, his wife, Donna Carla Gronchi, demanded an official accounting on behalf of the Italian Red Cross. "I asked for documentation for every one of the missing," she said, "and if any one of them is dead, I want to know how he died, why he died...
...couldn't find animosity in his heart during the reading period, and abandoning all caution, he struck out for the periodical room. He always tried to avoid looking at people, but he couldn't help noticing, with the satisfaction of a Neapolitan among the Americans in Naples, the way the strangers searched clumsily in the shelves and catalogues...
...Creche Sir: What a beautiful cover of an 18th century Neapolitan creche for TIME'S Christmas number of Dec. 28! If this is your first gatefold cover, let us hope that you will use more of them in the future, as you bring us reproductions of the world's priceless...
...making of these pious toys became a specialized trade, and Naples was its center, with orders for cribs coming in from all over Europe. In the former royal Neapolitan palace at Caserta are preserved some 300 of the thousands of figurines that once composed Italy's most magnificent presepio, belonging to Bourbon King Charles III of Naples, who spent months arranging it each year in several rooms of the palace, while his queen and her ladies in waiting sewed silk and velvet costumes for the new figures. One of the most striking of the Neapolitan presepios, owned by Collector...