Word: italian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Italian magazine, Oggi, picked up the story of Francesco's 24 years of forlorn wooing, and sudden notoriety succeeded where all the years of defeat had not. Last week Francesco, 49, wrote a letter to the editor confessing that at long last "I have given up, because with women one cannot win." As for Angela, now a spinster of 40, she could not care less. "He didn't appeal to me when he was younger," she said, "and he appeals to me even less now." When told that Francesco had named her his heir, Angela showed a tougher...
...restrictive laws on divorce grounds to invoke the untidy one of adultery, named one "Mrs. J.R." as corespondent. To Tycoon Onassis, Tina's legal blockbuster came as a "surprise." For Soprano Maria Callas, 36,, for weeks in print as a friend of Onassis, and separated from Italian Industrialist Giovanni Battista Meneghini, the suit triggered a quick conference with Onassis in Monte Carlo. Then Maria flew back to her villa in Milan, pleading innocence of any and all storm-brewing. But who was the shadowy Mrs. J.R., accused by Tina of being Onassis' great and good friend...
...graffito (or 'sgraffito, as in 'sblood) is a rudely scratched inscription, figure or drawing found on rocks, walls, vases or other objects. It is derived from an Italian word for scratching (as in dogs with fleas). Some alumnus with a sense of humor thought that the fine new wall of the Quincy House dining room would look well with a rudely scratched inscription, and so he donated an undisclosed sum to purchase such a phenomenon...
This town is full of people (especially girls) who insist on "atmosphere" for their post-date eats. And there's a new little Italian place up Mass. Ave. near the 'Cliffe--which has no atmosphere at all. Sure, it has rough-hewn benches, an indoor trellis with wax grapes, and murals of Italy. But atmosphere it has not. It is just a big, bright joint, with neon...
Next day the smiles faded. A Vatican spokesman said that Authenticator Porcella had indeed worked for the Vatican-for a short period more than 24 years ago on a guidebook. The Italian government, which keeps tab on its art experts, said that Citizen Porcella was not listed as a first-rate expert, or even as a second-rate one. A Chicago art dealer named Jack Shore, president of the Sheridan Galleries, proudly revealed that Porcella had authenticated half a dozen similar masterpieces for him in the past year (among them a "Leonardo"). All were restored by Zlatoff-Mirsky, whom Shore...