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...first noteworthy member of the Torlonia family (which came from France to Italy in the 18th Century) was Giovanni, a rag & bone merchant who became one of Europe's greatest financiers, lent money to kings and even to Napoleon's high-living kin. He bought a couple of ancient dukedoms, but Roman aristocracy-whose thin blue lineage is longer than almost anybody else's-sneered at the upstart. At one of Giovanni's lavish fetes, the French novelist Stendhal overheard a great Roman lady say: "Torlonia should not come to his own balls . . . One sees only...
...best schoolmasterly manner, he advised the newsmen to bone up on the history of the Alien and Sedition laws of the 1790s. They would be surprised, he said, at the parallel. If they would begin reading about the administration of John Adams and go on through Thomas Jefferson's they would find out all about...
...original 1934 Hollywood version lifted Shirley Temple to stardom. The current version, though it has very little to do with Runyon, lifts Comedian Bob Hope out of an accumulated litter of silly scripts, props and costumes, and gives him a new grip on the U.S. public's funny bone...
...week's end, tests of the convict's blood and bone marrow (from the sternum or breastbone) showed nothing abnormal. Doctors believed that he would stay free of the disease, but tests would continue for a year. The girl seemed a little better, but it was much too early to tell whether the Sing Sing experiment was a new milestone in the fight against leukemia or just another baffling failure...
...American League where the Yankees, paced by Henrich, had rolled up a solid six-game lead. At 33, modest, Ohio-born Tommy Henrich was having a new experience; he was the Yankees' big wheel. The great Joe DiMaggio had held that role for nine years, but a bone spur put him out of action before the season opened (TIME, April...