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Italy's sculpture is in the midst of a postFascist renaissance. Milan boasts two sculptors good enough to rival any now living: Giacomo Manzú (TIME, Sept. 25) and Marino Marini (TIME, Feb. 27, 1950). Rome has 37-year-old Pericle Fazzini, who is every bit as able. Last week Rome honored its own with a big Fazzini exhibition in the Barberini Palace...
...grinning gendarme yelled to a friend: "MacArthur s'en va" (MacArthur is leaving). "With all his merits," said a complacent Dutch housewife, "he was a nuisance." A veteran European diplomat snapped: "An abscess has been removed." Nodded an Italian official: "Bureaucratically, it was the correct thing to do." Milan's Corriere della Sera voiced the underlying sentiment of all: "Europe's victory against Asia in the competition for 'most important place' in general U.S. strategy." Wrote the Vatican's Osservatore Romano: "A decisive act, proclaiming a desire for peace . . . The President of the United...
...both the Ciano and Diaz families suffered. Soon after, Laura Diaz came into contact with the Communist underground, and when the Germans took over Mussolini's crumbling state she was leader of a Communist cell in Leghorn. Her public career began at a Communist convention in Milan in 1948 when she walked on to the stage wearing red stockings, red jersey, a red ribbon in her hair, presented Communist Boss Togliatti with a bunch of red roses. The same year, sloe-eyed Laura stood for Parliament, won her seat by a sweeping majority. The offending speech was made during...
Last month, Button captured the Men's World Figure Crown at Milan...
...Born in Milan, six-footer Siepi originally aspired to be a boxer. He never fought professionally, finally gave up his amateur bouts because his mother grieved so much over his cut and bruised features. He had done his first singing in his school chorus, but did not decide to become a singer until he was 18, when his school friend, Giuseppe di Stefano (now a Met tenor), urged him to enter a competition in Florence ("It's free . . . there are girls . . ."). Though he knew only two arias, Siepi won the competition. He made his debut in Rigoletto two months...