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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...more books in the series will appear this month. The Newcomers, by Oscar Handlin, professor of History, deals with the history of Negroes and Puerto Ricans in the New York area. Also to be published is Made in New York, by Roy B. Helfgott, James M. Hund, and W. Eric Gustafson, instructor in Economics...
...million copies each, collected a mass of button-snatching fans who fed his conviction that his loud voice was a great one; of a heart attack; in Rome. Lanza quarreled capriciously with his Hollywood benefactors, was sued for $5,000,000 by M-G-M for refusing to appear in The Student Prince. His voice already showing tarnish, he allowed an earlier recording to be dubbed in when he sang on a 1954 CBS-TV show. He sought refuge in a sybaritic style of life, fought a battle against the overweight that ultimately led to his death...
...teens when he decided that men are, so to speak, either florists or deflorists. His bent was clear, and when his mother enrolled him in a seminary, he was quickly expelled. The second volume of the Putnam edition (the first was issued last spring, and four more will appear at half-year intervals) takes up the rake's progress when he is 23. Casanova has joined a runaway beauty named Henriette, set her up in a lavish apartment in Parma. In three months, he remarks mildly, "the only pleasure we took out of doors was a drive outside...
...French teacher-fittingly enough, because she is also the mistress of the French ambassador. And so it goes. Yet he has not altogether forgotten Henriette. Years later, they will meet again. By that time she will be fat and Casanova feeble. As Havelock Ellis pointed out, the same women appear again and again in the Memoirs; it is perhaps a mark of the true Casanova that he can stay friends with his former mistresses...
Whatever its shortcomings, Poems is a significant literary event. Culled mainly from seven slim volumes of his verse produced between 1916 and 1945, this is the first comprehensive collection of Pasternak's poetry ever to appear in English...