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Word: vecchi (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
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...

Author: By Lambert Strether, | Title: Last Year at Cinecitta: Mario de Vecchi | 4/21/1962 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Lambert Strether, | Title: Last Year at Cinecitta: Mario de Vecchi | 4/21/1962 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Lambert Strether, | Title: Last Year at Cinecitta: Mario de Vecchi | 4/21/1962 | See Source »

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