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...have read with the greatest pleasure your Dec. 17 article on my film, Miracle in Milan...
...Wall Street last week, barely five weeks after it had been freed from controls to establish its own value, the Canadian dollar hit par with the U.S. dollar. Across the world, in the free markets of Paris, Milan, Tangier and Beirut, Canadian dollars were suddenly in such brisk demand that money-changers priced them at 101 U.S. cents. In the confused hippodrome of international finance, the wide, moss-green Bank of Canada banknote was running neck & neck with the U.S. dollar as the world's most desirable currency...
...their biggest bid to capture Paris' high-fashion trade, most of Italy's top designers showed off their spring & summer creations last week in Florence's Grand Hotel. As usual, the Italians were at their best in sportswear and play clothes, and none was better than Milan's blonde, fortyish Jole Veneziani, a onetime furrier who went into dress-designing only six years...
Half Price. Not only in Florence, but in Rome, Milan and other major cities, the Italian renaissance of fashion is in full swing. Less than two years ago, Italy's designers were scarcely known outside their own country. But U.S. buyers, fed up with Paris' high prices and highhandedness, have been spending more & more money in Italy. The clothes are excellent and sell for only about half as much as Paris'. Last week's ranges: $200 to $250 for suits, $250 to $450 for cocktail dresses and short formal gowns, $300 to $450 for most ball...
Lost in the Vaults. Restless and unhappy, Leonardo turned to study and speculation. He deserted Florence for Milan, left Milan for Mantua, tried Florence and Milan again, then Rome and finally France. Time & again he proposed to his patrons works of such colossal size that they could be executed only in the vaults of Leonardo's own vast imagination. It seemed almost as if he wanted his projects to be refused, so that he could go on brooding over more of them...