Word: pia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sleek and slinky Countess Pia Bellentani was an amateur poetess and a woman of passion. She had long regarded her relations with the middle-aged count, her husband, as a "purely formal duty." Her friend Carlo Sacchi the silk merchant was an amateur poet as well and only slightly less passionate. In Italy's caviar and champagne set during the early '40s, the two made a neatly rhymed couplet, and even Signora Sacchi nodded at their idyl on the theory that it was only a "passing passion...
Clutching the hand of her father Dr. Peter Lindstrom as they stepped off the plane at New York's Idlewild Airport, little Pia (Jenny Ann) once again faced a group of curious reporters. Could she tell them about the meeting with her mother Ingrid Bergman? "Please, she's only twelve," said her father, and proceeded to answer the questions himself. She had spent eight days with her mother in London; he had had a "cordial" meeting with...
After waiting almost 18 months for his money, the Rome obstetrician who delivered Ingrid Bergman's son by Roberto Rossellini sued for $4,000. In Manhattan, meanwhile, Ingrid's former husband Dr. Peter Lindstrom and their daughter Jenny Ann, who used to be called Pia, boarded the Queen Mary en route to Sweden, where Ingrid will have a chance to see her daughter for the first time since her great romance separated them...
...Degrees. In 1898, Italy's King Umberto I agreed to have the relic photographed. Secondo Pia, a photographer of Turin, was given the job. While developing the plate, he reported: "Suddenly I was so filled with fear that I almost fainted. For there grew plainly visible on the plate the face and body of a man whose head was covered with blood, whose wrists carried stigmata, whose expression was one of untold majesty...
...couple of weeks' silence, Cinemactress Ingrid Bergman and Roberto Rossellini (see CINEMA) were talking out loud again. In Hollywood, Actress Bergman's attorney announced that she would return to the U.S. to make "the fight of her life" for custody of her eleven-year-old daughter, Pia, by her marriage to Dr. Peter Lindstrom. Asserting that she was a "fit and proper" mother, she filed suit in Los Angeles for an accounting of all her property as well as personal custody of Pia. In Rome, where Actress Bergman was caring for her seven-week-old baby, Renato Roberto...