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September 3, 1960

The New Yorker cover for September 3, 1960

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TORNA! TORNA!

Winthrop Sargeant

PROFILE of Count Guido Chigi Saracini, Siena's first citizen and its patron of music. From mid-July until mid-September an unparalleled course of music…

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