Word: rome
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...would have suspected that the small, well-tailored woman with blue-rinsed grey hair and smart, blue-framed spectacles was a nun, or, for that matter, that she was an American. Mother Mary Dominic Ramacciotti regards her occasional social round of luncheons, teas and receptions in Rome as the hard part of her work. This week she was back at the "easier" part: putting in an 18-hour day building an Italian Girls' Town...
...Mirror. Within a few months, Mother Mary was off to Italy, soon became director of Italy's unborn Girls' Town. With her meager funds Mother Mary spent two years searching for the right site. She settled on a tiny hamlet called Borgata Ottavia, near Rome, built a dormitory-schoolhouse. Later she added a simple modern chapel, which was formally inaugurated last week...
...ghostly television image from London, 5,200 miles away. When he tried for continental stations, he had even better luck with a standard German TV set and a simple suburban-type aerial. Across his 17-in. screen nickered the Pope celebrating Easter Mass at St. Peter's in Rome, tennis at Wimbledon, opera from Bremen...
Forgotten was Callas' walkout from the Rome Opera last month (TIME, Jan. 13) when she lost her voice during a performance of Norma. At the final curtain she took ten solo bows. The true measure of how totally Callas dominated last week's Traviata was the credibility she brought to the younger Dumas' tears-and-champagne tale of the consumptive courtesan-with scant help from a minor-league cast. As Alfredo, Tenor Daniele Barioni sang powerfully but uncertainly and sometimes off-key, acted in an emotional monotone that made his rages indistinguishable from his passions...
Died. Prince Filippo Andrea Doria-Pamphilj-Landi, 71, last male descendant of the main branch of the famed Doria family, which traces its history to 12th century Genoa, owner (in Rome's Palazzo Doria) of one of the world's most celebrated private galleries (included: Velásquez' portrait of an earlier Pamphilj, Pope Innocent X); of arteriosclerosis; in Rome. A bitter antiFascist, who condemned Mussolini's war on Ethiopia, he suffered 15 years of mistreatment by Fascists, became wartime "underground governor" of Rome and, appointed by the Allies, the city's first postwar mayor...