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...wife Francesca had never seen De Gasperi in a more abominable temper. After a fortnight of fever and frustration, he threatened to form a five-party government. While the neighbor's phonograph played, he drafted a tentative list of ministers. Then much-enduring Alcide de Gasperi fainted...
...became reconciled. Last year Antenor agreed to give Cristina $500,000. He also promised her another $500,000 if he should abandon her "without cause." Last week, in a Manhattan court, Cristina charged that Antenor had been running off to places like Palm Beach and Colorado Springs with one Francesca Simms, a sultry American model. This, said Cristina, constituted abandonment. The court agreed, ordered Antenor, now in London...
David Lichine, Rostov-born, Paris-trained alumnus of Ida Rubinstein's troupe and one of the few choreographers who is equally famed as a dancer of male leads. A rival of Massine, Lichine resembles him in his love for flamboyant spectacle (Fair at Sorochinsk, Francesca da Rimini) and sophisticated satire (Helen of Troy, Graduation Ball...
...among Sarah C. Alexander, of Bryn Mawr, Pa., for her essay "Dante in Relation to Landscape Poetry"; Joanna H. Leowe, of Bryn Mawr, Pa., for her essay "Imagery in the First Two Cantiche of the Divine Comedy"; and Florence M. Newman, of Brya Mawr, Pa., for her essay "The Francesca da Rimini Episode in English Literature...
...Among other women in his life: Revolutionist Angelica Balabanoff; Barmaid Rachele Guidi, his common-law wife (later legal) for ten years; the brilliant exiled Jewess, Margherita Sarfatti; the sisters Maria and Francesca Ferroni; and slim, brown-eyed Claretta Petacci, daughter of a former Vatican surgeon...