Word: vecchi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...there, Mario de Vecchi, smoking feverishly in an off-yellow suite at the Ritz. Outside lay the Common with its formal drabness, and ten floors below, the Brahmins had gathered noiselessly to commune over impeccably dry martinis in a little bar itself so impeccably austere that it must often puzzle the stranger to Boston with its undeniable similarity to an anteroom in a plush, and extremely respectable sanatorium. Upstairs, behind a swirling curtain of smoke that burst at frequent intervals from just below his faintly smiling mustache, sat Signor de Vecchi, catlike in his expectation...
...Vecchi left New York, where he is a vice-president of Astor Pictures, in charge of foreign movies. He spent the whole year in Rome and then supervised American release of the completed film...
...competitively. Last year, I made eighteen trips to Europe to see my friends and their films. Anytime I found a picture I liked, I bought the rights, whatever they cost me," de Vecchi concluded with an operatic gesture...