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Page 15, The Daily Reporter, Saturday, October "Five Fingers' Combines Beauty And Brawn Lola Paluzzi Hurdles U.S. Language In Rise To Portrayal Of Fashion Model David Hedison In Struggle To Overcomes Handicap Be Successful Actor Television's first foreign glamour girl to star in a weekly series is a brown-eyed redhead of 21 nicknamed LaLa Paluzzi. The charmer from Rome, whose legal name is Luciana Paluzzi, costars with David Hedison in "Five Fingers." She portrays a sheath- gowned fashion model who flits in and out of danger with Hedison during the full-hour episodes. "I am delightfully surprised with Hollywood," says Miss Paluzzi. I was sure, back in Rome, that I wouldn't like it.

I thought it would be a busy place, full ol businessmen all business. Instead, it's very friendly and pretty. I want to live hen. for at least eight months of the year." Luciana's English, which still carries a slight accent, is remarkably good considering that she learned it in the past three years, mostly sqlf-taught from watching American movies. She also speaks French as fluently as her native Italian.

"Fortunately, I have a good ear for languages," she says. The only child of an Italian army colonel, Luciana grew up in Milan during the war. When she was 16, a friend of her father asked her if she'd like to play a small part in an Italian movie. Soon afterward she moved to Rome and began a film career as Rossano Brazzi's little sister in "Three Coins in the Fountain." Since then she has played in 16 European films, including pictures made in Paris and London. Her most recent pictures were opposite Victor Mature in "Tank Force" and Victor McLaglen in "Sea Fury," both filmed abroad.

She lives in a hillside canyon home near Hollywood where she cooks Italian goodies and invites her pals dinner. Remember? The people, events, songs and crazes of a fateful decade arc recaptured through factual film and music of the time in a new "Project 20" production "Life in the Thirties," on. NBC- TV Friday from 7:30 to 8:30 p.m. Depression raged and voters turned hopefully to a new national leader, Franklin D. Roosevelt (top left).

In the general upheaval came "swing" new breed of youth, the jitterbug (top center). When Prohibition passed oul, real beer came back and so did the corner saloon (top right). Britain's Edward VIII (bottom left) pushed even the depression off the front pages when he abdicated to marry Mrs. Wallis Warfield Simpson of Baltimore. Prosperity was just around the what corner? When some went bankrupt, they sold apples at 5 cents apiece on the street corner (bottom, tight) Luciana Paluzzi and David Hedison David Hedison, 30, who portrays the suave and fearless counter- esplonage agent in the new "Five Fingers" series, followed an unusual path to 'uccess.

The handsome young actor stars, with Italian actress, Luciana Paluzzi, in the new full-hour international intrigue series each Saturday on Channel 3 from 8:30 to 9:30 p.m. To become an actor, Hedison had to overcome a lifelong handicap of stuttering. He can't remember when it started, but he has a collection of painful memories of growing up, all of them associated with stuttering. In school, every time he tried to recite, snickers or embarrassed silence greeted his attempts to talk. Because of his handicap.

Hedison knew better than to tell any- ohe of his secret dream: to become an actor. Strangers would have laughed. Friends would have sympathized. When Dave was about 14 or 15, he was told by a doctor that tho stuttering probably was an outgrowth of intense shyness. The boy faced up to the fact that he would never be an actor if he couldn't stop stuttering, and decided to overcome it.

For several months much of his spare time was spent alone in his room reading aloud. That was painful, too. He hated to hear himself. With time, he reached the point where he could talk without stuttering to people who didn't know him people who didn't expect him to stutter. Eventually, he entered Brown University, in Providence, R.I., his hometown.

He was born there May 20, 1929, and except for a few years when his family lived in Medford and West Roxbury, grew up there. His father was a prosperous jewelry enamel- er. After three years at Brown, where he majored in English and languages, Hedison moved toward the stage and enrolled in the See HEDISON. Page 22.