Word: toscani
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Esquire-sponsored show. Bill Blass demonstrated his fondness for the military look with a heavy, maxi-length overcoat. For evening, John Weitz, a onetime race-car driver, showed a Levi-styled dinner jacket worn over a collarless shirt with a red bandanna knotted around the throat. Francis Toscani, who designs Botany-brand suits for a Philadelphia clothing manufacturer, aimed for versatility: the pocket panels of his fitted lounging coat were attached by Velcro strips and could be removed to convert the coat into a short Eisenhower jacket, presumably enabling the wearer to rush from boudoir to battlefield...
...Happened. Naguib is a "strong man"-but he neither looks nor acts the part. He lives in a modest suburban house with his wife and three young sons, earns $4,000 a year, smokes cheap Toscani tobacco and drives a tiny German Opel on which he still owes three or four payments. Quiet and self-effacing, a better listener than he is a talker, he exudes an old-fashioned courtesy that echoes the prose of the Koran. How did this mild-mannered man lead a revolution in a land where corruption, disease, glaring wealth and bitter poverty...
After the stage adaption of Adano (by Playwright Paul Osborn) opened in New York, Lieut. Colonel Toscani flew home from Italy on leave. He was entertained by Actor Fredric March (the stage Joppolo), Author Hersey, and Mayor LaGuardia. Solemnly he began to sign letters "Frank (Major Joppolo) Toscani...
Then Manhattan-born Frank Toscani, a grade-three clerk in New York City's Department of Sanitation before he went off to war, began to find embarrassed frustration as well as wonder in his shadow. Both stage & screen showed Joppolo carrying on-though not quite carried away by-a love affair. Joppolo also countermanded a stupid order by a general, and got transferred for it. Worst of all, Frank Toscani felt that the shadow was not sharing his huge earnings with anybody but Writer Hersey, Playwright Osborn, Producer Leland Hayward and the Playwrights Producing Co., Inc., and Twentieth Century...
Last week, Civilian Frank Toscani, now sales manager for a Bronx moving and warehousing firm, decided (after two years) to try to collect from his dominating shadow. He filed suit for $225,000 against Hersey (now a correspondent in China for the New Yorker and LIFE) and the others who had exploited the Adano story, charged defamation of character, and declared that "the defendants . . . were unjustly enriched...