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...parents were having one of their quarrels, the son tucked some gouaches he had been doing under his arm, slipped out to peddle them at the Left Bank cafés. The first painting he offered went for $1 - and that was the beginning of the astonishing rise of Aldo Franceschini...
...none," says one fellow's wife). But the men on Janiculum hill have little complaint beyond the plumbing. Stimulated by endless debates on life, art and talent in the atmosphere of ancient Rome, they have grown in every way. "Before I came here," says San Francisco Architect Aldo Casanova, 31, "I only studied and taught. Now, in what is supposed to be seclusion, I feel as though I have been exposed to the real world for the first time...
Blood on a Shirt. Gemello Minore has other shocks for Monsignor Meredith. The Nerone case is a web only sinful men could spin. There is Aldo Meyer, a Jewish doctor and humanist who plays a reluctant Judas to Nerone. There is Nerone's mistress who bore his bastard son and who nightly kneels before his bloody, bullet-torn shirt. The boy, now a troubled adolescent, is himself the prey in a vicious, sensual tug of war between a neurotic drug-taking contessa and a homosexual English painter. Without Author West's innate good taste, these characters might...
...Part of the testimony was a letter lifted from the Cuban embassy last winter after Fidel Castro's bearded revolutionaries toppled the Batista regime. Written by Oscar de la Torre, Batista's Ambassador to Mexico at the time, the letter confirmed what everyone had long suspected-that Aldo Baroni, columnist for Mexico City's daily Excelsior, had taken money to say nice things about Dictator Batista. The ambassador wrote to a presidential aide in Havana: "Our friend Villaboy gave me a check for $4,000. Following instructions of the President [i.e., Batista], I endorsed the check...
Married. Jeff Donnell, 37, actress who is giving up her job as Comedian George Gobel's TV wife; and Manhattan adman John Bricker II, 39; he for the second time, she for the third (her second: Actor Aldo Ray); in Van Nuys, Calif...