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An interested bystander af the ritual: Greek Immigrant Spyros P. Skouras, president of 20th Century-Fox, who nominated the general last week to be a new member of his board of directors.
In Rome, Producer Roberto Rossellini announced that, with the permission of his wife Ingrid Bergman, he was going to drive his twelve-cylinder Ferrari in Italy's famed Mille Miglia (1,000-mile) auto race this month. Said Ingrid, with the voice of experience: "Forbidden things are always so desirable. I thought if I said yes he wouldn't enter the race. Now I'm surprised."
The National Institute of Arts and Letters announced that it had awarded its Gold Medal for Poetry to Brooklyn's Marianne Moore, 65, winner of last year's Pulitzer Prize. Poet Moore now holds all major poetry awards available in the U.S.