Word: passione
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...frustrated Gradėre, living with the others in a dismal, rainswept chateau in southwestern France, adds murder to his long catalogue of sins. As the rain pours down, he intercepts the blackmailing Aline, now plotting with Symphorien to drive him from the chateau, and "without haste or passion, [performs] that act of squeezing her throat of which he had so often dreamed...
Digest thought that the Radulovic canvases "bear the marks of passion and power," and the Philadelphia Inquirer praised his ability to begin with a pictorial concept, break it up and rebuild it on his own lines. Better yet, four of the paintings in the show were sold at the opening, one for $300, and nobody seemed outraged at the $1,000 price tags on some of the pictures. Exulted Savo. now 42: "This means I'll never again have to be a private detective...
While filling in for Columnist Bennett Cerf in the Saturday Review, Novelist Laura (Gentleman's Agreement) Hobson discovered that she "adored having a column." Writer Hobson confessed her new passion to the editor of Hearst's Good Housekeeping, who signed her to do nine columns a year. When Columnist Inez Robb of Hearst's International News Service left, by mutual consent, to join Scripps-Howard and United Feature syndicate a fortnight ago, I.N.S. knew just where to turn. Beginning next week, Laura Hobson will do five columns a week for I.N.S. and its clients, titled "Assignment America...
Baby Legs & Butterflies. The serious U.S. amateur does not yield even to the U.S. driver in his passion for new models and new gimmicks. Foreign cameras with exotic names (Japan's Nikon, Germany's Plaubel Makina and Sweden's Hasselblad) attract him as Jaguars and Lancias attract the motorist ($10 million worth of foreign cameras was imported into the U.S. last year). He is particularly taken with such fairly new products as baby flashbulbs, easily portable strobe lights, and stereoscopic cameras. He pores over catalogues as a gourmet surveys a menu. How can he resist such dishes...
...Pesos, for Passion. Revolutionary adventure attracted Lara briefly; at 16, he left home to campaign with Pancho Villa. Back in the capital after a year of it, and hungry, he got a job playing the piano in a brothel, was soon steeped in the smoky atmosphere of the dives of the Barrio de San Miguel-Mexico's Montmartre. The secrets the girls told him in idle hours he phrased in songs. One night, as he broke off playing his new song Rosa, a buxom beauty named Yoland pulled a knife from her garter, slashed his face from mouth...