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...eight days before "the ground in northeastern Italy rose by 7.75 in., according to our instruments. This was a sign that we could expect some sort of tremor." The area along the Tagliamento is earthquake country of a sort. At the Geophysical and Astronomical Observatory in Monteporzio, Scientist Mariacecilia Spadea had already measured 20 or 30 minor shocks there this year. But, she said, "there was no history of severe earthquakes there in this century. It would have been impossible to predict a catastrophe like this...
...Highly Moral Place." "This isn't a place where you turn on," says Sara Spadea, a psychology major at New York University. "It's a place where you turn off." Claims another N.Y.U. coed who had obviously turned all the way off: "I lived in a mixed house all last summer and never knew the last name of anyone...
...first modern manikins on Fifth Avenue was designed for Saks's veteran Display Director Sidney Ring by the noted sculptor, Alexander Archipenko. There are now several cunning sculptors who make manikins their business: Cora Scovil, Lester Gaba, Jean Spadea (who gives her Bonwit Teller manikins such names as Zombie, Emmie and Eve). Manikins sculptured in wire mesh and covered with sheet music were introduced at Bergdorf Goodman last spring by Buckley & Riley, considered the maddest independents in the business...
Three times Jean Spadea dissuaded her husband, for nine years an advertising salesman for Crowell's Woman's Home Companion, from launching a beauty magazine. She told him he had the publishing urge without a clear-cut editorial program. This week the Spadeas thought they had at last fused a sure-fire formula, optimistically put upon American News Co. stands 50,000 copies of You, an intimate, elaborate 50? guidebook to female beauty. A quarterly, because female camouflage veers with the four seasons, You will strive to tell women how to be comely-how to pick a coiffure...
Though Mrs. Spadea has little spare time for advising You, her success as an artist has made You a reality. Publisher Spadea proudly acknowledges that most of the $55,000 Spadea interest in You came from his wife. Another $45,000. invested by 31 unnamed individuals, none by cosmetics people, insures You two years' life...