Word: passione
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fear & Faith. His passion for sports, Portago says, made him "a dismal failure" at schools in England, France, Spain and Hollywood. No game or adventure proved capable of holding his interest steadily until he discovered car-racing three years ago. Once he climbed into the cramped cockpit of a Grand Prix racer he knew exactly where he was heading...
While the primrose path for their heroines leads inevitably to disaster and thence to New Understanding, the passion pulps themselves are making a heap of tin out of sin. In the last ten years, while the magazine ranks have been riddled by casualties, only two confessional slicks have gone under. Though their combined circulation has fallen to only half the Korean war peak, the fall-off has stopped and today the 24 monthly and quarterly romance-mongers (top price: 25?) enjoy a steady circulation of more than 10 million. In the 38 years since the late Muscleman Bernarr ("Body Love...
...Abiding Passion. Piloting Continental is President Robert Six, 49, a burly Californian who is not only a Man of Distinction (1947) for Calvert whisky but for Ethel Merman, his musicomedienne (Happy Hunting) wife. With a Westerner's derring-do, Six has dabbled in oil wells, uranium and chemicals, hunts elk in Colorado, backs shows on Broadway (Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter...
...drafty Victorian splendor of Balmoral Castle itself, where Queen Elizabeth last summer requested a showing of Haley's movie Rock Around the Clock. The Queen's former dancing teacher. Marguerite Vacani, instructs her aristocratic pupils in its mysteries, and it has become a passion of Princess Margaret, who last week was reported sitting in a London theater with stockinged feet propped on a railing, wiggling her toes in time to the rock 'n' roll in The Girl Can't Help...
...Naples, Director De Sica has managed to say with a smile what he could not have said with a sneer. The four stories are variations on the same theme of human bondage that De Sica develops in all his serious films, and he plays his variations with no less passion and poetic irony because he is playing them for laughs...