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...omnivorous tastes, who sums up his chief delights (besides Shakespeare) as "the four Bs-banking, baseball, Balzac and bourbon." As he makes his rounds, he speaks in an irretrievable Southern drawl, mixes so well that he charms people no matter how anti-banker or anti-American they are apt to be. Once, at a state dinner given by Marshal Tito, the conversation through interpreters was dragging badly when Tito, rotundly resplendent in his dress uniform, asked Black if he might try one of the banker's fancy Corona Corona cigars. After the Yugoslav dictator started to puff away, Black...
...Khrushchev indictment means that Russia's entire postwar "peace" campaign was a sham, that Stalin was the aggressor in every cold-war episode. In Korea, said Khrushchev, "Stalin personally ordered the attack to begin," When word of all that gets out, Italian Communists are apt to feel even more buggerato...
...basis of these interviews which Riesman himself called "fragmentary," he said the present graduate does not foresee much struggle in life, and is more apt to "plan" his life well in advance, even before he completes school...
Wyzanski added that "service on this particular United States assignment would be so apt to have political as well as legal implications" that he could not continue as Federal judge and accept the appointment. It is known that the question of Red China's admission, as well as tensions in the Middle East, will again be on the General Assembly's agenda...
Published this week are the first three volumes (boxed and priced at $12.50). Breathlessly the publisher confides that "no one, absolutely no one but Tiffany Thayer, could have written it." No one is apt to quarrel with him, for Author Thayer has reached an Everest of vulgarity that may well stand as a mark until standards of literary decency are chucked entirely. His fancy is that Mona Lisa is written by French Poet Francois Villon; it turns out to be a between-the-sheets foray into the political brawls and sexual excesses of Renaissance Italy. It begins with the hero...