Word: taormina
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This week, Minou was back in Paris after a triumphal tour of Switzerland and Italy. Along the way, she had been the star of a poetry festival in Taormina and had an audience with the Pope. Said Minou to His Holiness: "I have gone into many churches looking for God, but all I find are stained-glass windows and pillars." It is not recorded what the Pope replied to this, but later he asked the poet for a copy of her book. Whereupon Minou asked archly, "Haven't you read it yet?", and promised to send...
...Notre Dame Cathedral, the Eiffel Tower (1,301,152 visitors last year), the Prades Music Festival (July 2-20). France has the Paris International Trade Fair (May 14-30), an international dance festival at Aix-les-Bains (July 23-Aug. 7). Italy offers the International Music Festival at Taormina (June 1-10), the Turin Sports Exhibition (May 2 5-June 19), Rome's Feast of St. Peter (June 29), Florence's May music festival, the Venice Regatta (Sept. 4), lavish, outdoor opera at the Caracalla Baths during June, July and August. For the first time this year Italians...
F.D.R. to Churchill: "I had hoped that Uncle Joe could come to Rome or Malta or Taormina or Egypt, but if he will not -and insists on the Black Sea-I could do it even at great difficulty...
Aboard the yacht Fakhr el Bihar, accompanied by two destroyers, an ambassador, three courtiers and a staff of 50 (plus five Cadillacs and a station wagon), Egypt's Queen Narriman, 17, and King Farouk, 31, arrived in Taormina, Sicily to spend the first ten days of their two-month honeymoon. The entourage took up a 60-room wing in the Hotel San Domenico, a converted monastery, where the royal couple shared what the management refers to as "the Truman suite" (named for an anticipated visit by the President which never came off): a reception room, two bedrooms, a connecting...