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When Marguerite Piazza played the role on TV, he had her poured into a skintight gown with nothing underneath. Then, as Soprano Piazza took a deep breath to reach for a high note, the gown split down the back. At that portentous moment, Tenor Jack Russell, singing with her, grabbed for the back of the dress. He caught it just in time to keep the show from being...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Dressing Up the Act | 6/13/1955 | See Source »

Poker Price. He began by racing motorcycles. As a schoolboy, he played poker to raise the price of bike rentals, and he competed wherever he could-from the Milan piazza to the open-road races through northern and central Italy. He cracked up soon and often, but he kept coming back. In 1940, when he was 21, he graduated to autos. Small, stock Fiats were his first mounts; for his first big races in the Mille Miglia and at Palermo, he managed to get hold of a Ferrari. Motor trouble forced him out each time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Lost Luck | 6/6/1955 | See Source »

...Venice Regatta (Sept. 4), lavish, outdoor opera at the Caracalla Baths during June, July and August. For the first time this year Italians expect thousands of visitors to journey to beautiful but primitive southern Italy, where the lack of hotels has discouraged visits to such scenic spots as Piazza Armerina, Ischia, Positano. To make sunny southern Italy more comfortable, the government has built or renovated more than 100 hotels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRAVEL: The Biggest Season | 5/16/1955 | See Source »

...February day in 1937, Benito Mussolini sent a pickax crashing into the pavement of the Piazza Bocca della Verità to break ground for Rome's first subway. A world war and his own inglorious death interrupted the work Mussolini began. When these greater events were not threatening its progress, Italy's archaeologists poked into the subway excavation and held up the work, to make sure that the tunnelers were not destroying any buried relics of antiquity. But somehow, despite all handicaps, Rome's subway got built. Last week, after 18 years and $20 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Express to Nowhere | 2/21/1955 | See Source »

...done in an apartment of that palace. On the Venetian cloister of San Francesco del Deserto, where some of the monastery sequences were made, the light falls slow and bright as dust from a celestial censer. The swordplay between Romeo and Tybalt flashes through Siena's gracious Piazza del Duomo. When Romeo in the last act beats with unavailing hands at the church door, he strikes the great bronze portal, green and inscrutable, of San Zeno Maggiore at Verona...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: IN FAIR VERONA | 12/20/1954 | See Source »

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