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Spare, soft-spoken Dr. Martino, 53, is by training not a diplomat or politician but an educator and a distinguished man of medicine. As rector of the University of Messina since 1943, he has made the university one of Italy's best. As a medical man specializing in the nervous system, he has done research and lectured in Berlin, Paris, London and South America, authored 150 publications. The son of a distinguished Sicilian (his father was mayor of Messina for 30 years) and married to a descendant of an old Sicilian noble family, Martino is not the fiery...
...week with a plea of nolo contendere* to charges of conspiring to violate the 1939 U.S. Neutrality Act by attempting to ship arms to Cuba (TIME, Dec. 14). Federal Judge Edmund L. Palmieri fined the ex-President $9,000; in a similar procedure, his onetime Interior Minister, Segundo Curd Messina, was fined...
Attacking the British. All Italy was enraged. Violence sputtered in Rome, Milan, Genoa, Naples, Bari, Messina. In Rome, U.S. Ambassador Clare Boothe Luce, returning from a call on Premier Pella, found Via Veneto, the broad street in front of the embassy, blocked by demonstrators, so that her car could not get through. Unhesitatingly, she stepped out of the car into the midst of the demonstrators and walked coolly through the crowd to the embassy. Then she offered to talk to any qualified representative of the demonstrators, but the crowd dispersed without anyone taking up the offer...
Sicily has only one great painter to boast of, but in the five centuries since his death he had never been paid the tribute of a big, retrospective show. Last week the city of Messina (pop. 220,790) was finally making belated amends, with the first major exhibition honoring its home town master, Antonello da Messina. It was a limited display, for Antonello's known works are few. But the show did include 15 religious paintings and portraits known to be from Antonello's own hand, plus ten more pictures hopefully attributed...
...taught the technique in Venice, where even the great Giovanni Bellini was eager to learn from him. What Antonello brought to Bellini (and through him, to Titian, Giorgione and Italian art in general) was nothing less than a new tool for rendering light. Having accomplished that, he returned to Messina...