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Flying Bouquets. When Baudouin's plane touched down at Brussels' Melsbroek airport, he descended smiling to embrace his father, kiss his grandmother, shake hands with his handsome younger (25) brother Prince Albert, whose proposed marriage to Princess Paola Ruffo di Calabria at the Vatican had set off an anticlerical uproar in Belgium (TIME, June 8). Normally. Baudouin would have gone directly from the airport to his Laeken palace, bypassing busy Brussels, with its snarled, honking traffic. Instead, riding in an open limousine, the King made a 15-mile tour of his capital city, where hundreds of police...
Last month Premier Eyskens was abruptly summoned to the palace and told that Leopold's youngest son in the royal line, Albert, 25, was going to marry Paola Ruffo di Calabria, 21, one of the prettiest of a clutch of pretty Italian princesses. Everybody thought the girl a catch, but because royal marriages are affairs of state demanding government deliberation and approval, the Cabinet again felt itself insulted, ignored and affronted. Three days later, Pope John XXIII announced in Rome that he would perform the marriage himself at the Vatican, and let it be understood that there would...
Vitelloni, directed with tenderness and humor by Federico Fellini, is technically superb in every respect. The actors, led by Franco Fabrizi, manage to separate themselves from the crowd and yet show how each contributes to the crowd. Each seems to develop a point of view. Leonora Ruffo matures from a squealing dumb Italian to a sympathetic character of real stature. And Nina Rota's music is excellent...
Dinosaur's Ear. The first network broadcast was delivered through a microphone that looked like a dinosaur's hearing aid, but the talent added up to a four-hour 1926 spectacular: Dr. Walter Damrosch and the New York Symphony, Weber and Fields, the Met's Titta Ruffo, and the dance bands of Ben Bernie, George Olsen and Vincent Lopez. In the following years, while the unseen U.S. audience grew from 5 million radio sets to 127 million radios and 38 million TV sets, NBC kept the air buzzing with such big names and pioneering feats...
Fausto (Franco Fabrizi), the biggest of the slobs, is a charming young chump who spends most of his life salting the local quail. When a beauty contest winner gets pregnant, he tries to leave town, but his father catches him on the wing, makes him marry the girl (Leonora Ruffo). His father-in-law then forces him to take a job in a shop that sells religious objects. Fausto tries to relieve his misery by flirting with the boss's wife, gets fired for his pains. Not long after, he spends the night with a showgirl (Maja Nipora), comes...