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...Italy's strongest newspapers came out next morning against any attempt to reform the government along Pella's lines. "No rightist solution is possible in the present situation," said Turin's La Stampa, which is owned by Fiat. Added Milan's respected Corriere della Sera: "The rank and file of the party, supported by a large percentage of the clergy and even the episcopate, have turned left ... at the same time that the Christian Democratic Party hierarchy has stood still...
...asked if I would pose for Raoul Dufy in his Montmartre atelier for a picture to go into the soon-to-open International Exposition. I gladly accepted, and found that I was to be Archimedes [see cut] in what a studio aide called une peinture qui sera vraiment extraordinaire. Dufy frocked me in a white toga-like affair which had been borrowed from an amateur theatrical group, had me strike the pose he wanted, and then began to slash away with bold strokes ... all the while keeping up a fast line of chatter with various onlookers. I nearly fainted after...
...news, the once faithful Communist Teresa took a step unprecedented in scorned fury-she wrote a letter to the editor of the capitalist Corriere delta Sera: "Please print my categorical denial that the Honorable Longo has got a divorce from me." Throwing caution to the winds, the outraged Teresa went on to point out that divorce is forbidden by Italian Communist doctrine: "Communists, in fact, cannot have two policies, one public and the other personal." This amounted to a charge of deviationism, not only against Longo, but against Red Boss Palmiro Togliatti himself (who divorced his wife in Russia...
...leading Soprano Maria Callas and Bernstein, leaned into the orchestra pit to compliment the musicians, and filed out into the plush lobby gesticulating to each other like conductors. The" critics chimed in. Bernstein, wrote top Critic Giulio Confalonieri, is "absolutely predestined to music." Milan's eminent Corriere della Sera called him "indisputably brilliant." One of few sour notes came from an elderly admirer: "He's an American...
...Italy, a voice broke into the scheduled program of the government radio. "This is a special announcement." Italians thrilled at the news. Newspapers, except those of the far left, broke out their big type to proclaim AN ACT OF JUSTICE. Wrote Italy's leading daily, Corriere della Sera: "What happened has been to a great extent the work of a woman, of Mrs. [Clare Boothe] Luce, and it is right and necessary that the Italian people know it . . . Perhaps one day we will learn with what patience, intelligence and diplomatic tact Mrs. Luce succeeded in bringing this arduous task...