Word: remo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...world's biggest hit, with 7,000,000 records sold, including 2,000,000 for Decca Records in the U.S. alone. Last week Modugno, glowing in a powder-blue tuxedo, weepily twanged his latest effort, Piove (It's Raining), at the annual San Remo Song Festival, walked off with the festival prize-no cash, but an Oscar-sized honor in a crooner-crazed land. This week Piove, a mawkish tale about lovers parting at a train station, flowed across the U.S. on hot platters pressure-cooked by Decca, is almost sure to be another smash hit for Modugno...
...fiddle and lamenting the dictator's fate that kept him from becoming "a great concert violinist." This week one of the hottest jazz pianists in a land of few jazz piano players, a musician billed as Romano Full, will make his public debut with a quintet at San Remo's International Jazz Festival. His full name: Romano Mussolini, 28, Il Duce's youngest son. Unlike his father, who could read music, Romano is musically illiterate but plays by ear better than Il Duce did by note. Romano's chief accomplishment to date: a groovy recording with...
...price of an occasional drink, meal or free flop from old friends. Despite his stubbled chin and unshorn hair, Max managed to preserve a certain courtly Southern dignity, and when the news of his death got around the Village this week, there was genuine sadness. At the San Remo Cafe, Caricaturist Jake Spencer smashed Bodenheim's personal gin glass and proposed a toast. "Max was a splendid type," he said. "He used to write poetry in a booth here and then try to peddle the verse at the bar for a drink...
Abandoning themselves to the joy of raising Remo. the maiden aunts plan to make him an engineer, a millionaire, a deputy, a minister, and dream that he will rise "like a lighthouse ... to illumine the world." But Remo has no head for study and no heart for work. What he doesn't know about women, however, can be written on the head of one of his aunts' pins. After stripping the sisters of their savings, land and farm, Remo marries a beautiful American pressure-cooker heiress and goes to live with her. in New York. The blow...
Moreover, Remo has given them ten years of happiness, and, as they regain part of the fortune he squandered, they live in memories of the delightful past. In this they are greatly aided by a photograph of Remo in bathing trunks, blown up to two-thirds life size...