Word: portofino
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Dino Gentili, 55, is a rich exporter-importer who has one of the most grandiose homes in Milan, a gilded opera box at La Scala, a villa at Portofino, three racy sports cars, and eight companies...
...confidently at any level of society; his sister married David Maxwell Fyfe, who was Home Secretary, and is now Viscount Kilmuir, the present Lord Chancellor of Great Britain, and a member of the Tories' top command. Five years ago Harrison built a villa overlooking the fishing village of Portofino on the Italian Riviera, where Rex fished, swam, sped about in speedboats. But he was always restless there. "I'm not really a country man in the hearty sense," he admits. He has a nervous habit of stroking his long nose, shooting his cuffs by stretching out his arms...
...cheapest for travel (a good meal costs only a dollar), was also anxious to please. Though the prim government forbade Italians to wear two-piece bathing suits or abbreviated trunks on the public beaches, Americans were free to wear what they wanted at such international resorts as Portofino, Lido and Capri. This year there would be classical plays for tourist audiences, performed under floodlights in the ruins of Pompeii. Like other Italians, the pickpockets were getting ready for the tourists. Rome newspapers reported last week that they were brushing up their art at special schools, where artful dodgers of long...
...head of Tri-Continental Corp., one of Wall Street's biggest investment trusts (original capital $100,000,000); 3) a man who likes nothing better than to spend two months of the year as lord of a funny old palace on the shore of the Mediterranean at Portofino, Italy...
...parade to the post. Orwell walked in an efficient fashion, sleek and dignified, while the other horses pranced and sidled. When the race started, Orwell, still sleek and dignified, was less efficient. He stayed in the bunch behind the leaders while first Cockpen, then Lord Derby's Portofino. then Dastur took the lead. With a furlong and a half to go, Dastur was still ahead with Miracle running second and April the Fifth third. In black & pink, Jockey Fred Lane on the Walls horse and Jockey Wragg, riding Miracle, challenged at the same time. For an instant, the three...