Word: pia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Married. Maria Pia, 20, daughter of Italy's exiled King Umberto, Princess Royal of the House of Savoy; and Prince Alexander, 30, shipping executive and son of Yugoslavia's onetime Prince Regent Paul; in the village of Cascais, Portugal...
There are two short stories in this Advocate, both unpretentious and excellently written. Except for a few lines of mutually embarrassing dialect ("Da Jevvys don't want no one screwin' roun' wi dat pia-ano . . ."), Frederick Kimball's account of an artist in Jesuit clothing moves serenely to its well-ordained conclusion. Christopher Lasch's story of boy's despair before a more accomplished, less dependent companion never loses subtlety at the expense of clarity...
Besides such fancy guns as hand-tooled Mannlichers, the hunters carried brass horns and other noisemakers for luring a stag to his death. The most effective device, the bleater, is a small rubber squeezer, ball-shaped and equipped with stops. Properly manipulated, the bleater emits a "pia" like the cry of a newborn roe; it also trills a realistic "fiep," simulating the call of a doe in rut. The bleater instruction sheet suggests that the hunter render the fiep with "trembling hands," then promptly swing his gun to his shoulder and brace himself for the charge of a romantic roebuck...
...eleven-page decision, Judge Lillie spared neither Actress Bergman nor Pia's father, Dr. Peter Lindstrom. Pia, she said, "is almost lost to her [mother]. Whether she [Actress Bergman] wished to admit it or not, a goodly part of the responsibility rests with her . . . Children are not chattels to be passed back and forth between parents to satisfy their pride, convenience and desires, at the expense of the welfare of those children. The parent having physical custody necessarily has the advantage, for besides having the child's constant regard, love and companionship, that parent . . . can and unfortunately often...
...week's end, Pia's mother got ready for another round of court battles. Said she in Rome: "I want Pia to visit me here so she can see for herself how my married life is ... She can ask me any questions about my falling in love with [Rossellini]. I'll give her an explanation. She is entitled to know. At her age now, some of it she will understand and some of it she will not. But in any case, it is wrong for people to frighten her about his influence...