Word: roma
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...TEMPO DI ROMA, by Alexis Carvers (328 pp.; McGraw-Hill; $4.50), is evidence that nothing makes more pleasant reading than a novel that is both light and serious-unless it is a love letter written with tact. Alexis Curvers' light and serious novel is a moving love letter to the city of Rome. It consists of the memoirs of Jimmy, an exquisitely cultivated Belgian bum who gets a job as a tourist guide in the Holy City and finds a few shadowy, crackpot friends. There is Sir Craven, so named for his Craven "A" cigarettes, a fop straight...
...printed inexact facts about the income-tax figure of my wife, Gina Lollobrigida. Your figure of $18,583 for 1957 represents the net tax to be paid by Signora Lollobrigida at the request of the Comnne di Roma (municipal administration of the city of Rome), which has fixed the taxable income for 1957 at approximately $128,000. MILKO SKOFIC...
...long been a well-known man-about-the-Vatican. A prince and a colonel of the Noble Guard, he has held positions in many offices of the Vatican administration and many Congregations of the Curia. Currently he represents Vatican investments on the boards of the Banco di Roma, and pharmaceutical, shipping and piping companies. In 1946 the Central American Republic of Costa Rica appointed him envoy to the Vatican State, upgraded him to ambassador ten years later. Another papal relative is also a diplomat at the Vatican: Count Stanislao Pecci, grandnephew of Pope Leo XIII (1878-1903), Envoy Extraordinary...
...City of Sydney behaved wonderfully to us. One of the Indians put as many as eight children in his bed and brought them refreshments." Next day the Skaubryn's passengers and crew, men and women from 20 nations, were transferred from the overcrowded freighter to the Italian liner Roma, bound for Europe. Few of Roma's waiters, stewards, cooks and deckhands got more than four hours' sleep in the three days they cared for the survivors before putting them ashore at Aden, where volunteer relief committees had prepared a newly finished hospital and a girls' school...
...Casadesus, Soprano Lisa Delia Casa, Violinist Mischa Elman, Violinist Zino Francescatti, Pianist Emil Gilels, Pianist Clara Haskil, Pianist Eugene Istomin, the Juilliard Quartet, Harpsichordist Ralph Kirkpatrick, Baritone George London, Violinist Nathan Milstein, Pianist Guiomar Novae's, the Obernkirchen Children's Choir, Cellist Gregor Piatigorsky, the Quartette di Roma, Pianist Artur Rubinstein, Guitarist Andrés Segovia, Mezzo-Soprano Jennie Tourel, Baritone Theodor Upp-man, Duo-Pianists Vronsky and Babin, Baritone William Warfield, Soprano Frances Yeend, Harpist Nicanor Zabaleta...