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Divorced. Louis E. Lomax, 44, Negro author (The Negro Revolt), civil rights actionist and TV commentator (KTTV in Los Angeles); by Wanda K. Lomax, 34, his third wife; on grounds of mental cruelty; after two years of marriage; in Los Angeles...
...Richard Nixon and the late Robert A. Taft all warmed to Columnist White. From White's host of friends, Johnson emerges as the man who best typifies all that Bill White says he values in the political craft. "He is a pragmatic man and not a theorist, an actionist and not a philosophic thinker," White once wrote of Johnson...
...Actionist Deputy Piero Calamandrei, rector of Florence University, told a Boccaccio-flavored anecdote to express his opposition to the contradictions of a Constitution which proclaimed both religious equality and the preferential position of one faith: "This reminds me of the old man in Florence who had two mistresses, one young and the other old. The man's hair was partly black, partly grey. Each of his mistresses wanted him completely for herself. So the young mistress tore out all his grey hair, while the old one tore out all the black. The poor man's head of course...
...Premier Parri. But at 55, the tall, stooped man with the lined face, baggy clothes, big hat and high, intellectual forehead was used to hard knocks. He had fought through World War I (four wounds, four decorations). He had fought against Fascism, as a journalist and organizer of the Actionist underground. In World War II he had fought the Germans as vice commandant of the northern partisans. A middle-of-the-road man, he had been chosen as the compromise leader of a compromise Cabinet...
Avanti, the Socialist newspaper, heard the story, started a front-page ruckus. Into the fray jumped the Actionist, Communist and Republican papers, screaming for the Duke's royal hide. Royalist supporters, lukewarm or less in their affection for the middle-aged bon vivant-whose amorous escapades had the Lido and Newport agog a decade ago-sat tight...