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Director Marco Bellocchio's family name means "beautiful eye"- and European cinema buffs are satisfied that it is a highly suitable patronym. On the basis of only two films, they are already hailing Bellocchio as Italy's brightest movie light since Antonioni. The 28-year-old son of a lawyer from Piacenza, Bellocchio won the Silver Ribbon, Italy's Oscar, with his very first effort, Fists in the Pocket (1965). His China Is Near (1966) won the special jury award at last summer's Ven ice Film Festival. Both films are now being released...
...poor boy from Hepzibah (pop. 400), W. Va., Samuel Desist had every reason to live down to his patronym. But, setting his sights on an Army career, he enlisted and persisted. By 1962, when he was 39, Sam Desist wore a major's gold oak leaf and was press officer for the U.S. Army at Orléans in France. Desist also acquired a chic French wife, who bore him two sons, and a taste for la vie as it is not lived in Hepzibah...
Warmer Warsaw? O'Brien succeeds John A. Gronouski, whose fortune is in his patronym. A former Wisconsin tax commissioner, he was given the job by J.F.K. because of his appeal to the Polish vote-though he can barely speak the language. Johnson appointed Gronouski Ambassador to Poland, replacing Career Diplomat John Moors Cabot. A newcomer to foreign affairs, Gronouski, 45, is nevertheless the grandson of a genuine Polish immigrant; his mission in Poland will attempt to thaw the chill in Washington-Warsaw relations-which are still warmer than U.S. dealings with any other Communist capital-that set in after...
TIME, Oct. 10, reviewing Vanities, states that the patronym of Milton Berle is pronounced to rhyme with "peril." As manager of a vaudeville theatre in which Berle appeared not long ago, I discovered that while Milton pronounces his last name to rhyme with "pearl," Mr. Berle Sr. pronounces it "Boyle...
Doheny and Fall are again free men. What seems to have been a fairly able jury unanimously acquitted them of charges of conspiracy. Mr. Doheny, leaving the court, delivered to reporters an heroic on the unbesmirched patronym he now passes on to his grand-children. True, Senator Heflin of Alabama shouted, "All law-ab ding citizens will hang their heads in shame at the verdict", but that was party politics, says the New York Tribune...
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