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Fool! Donkey! Ass!" Papa Wiener was a character in his own right. Omnivorous scholar, fanatical Tolstoyan rigid vegetarian, amateur farmer and heterodox Slavic philologist, Bialystok-born Leo Wiener was an austere and aloof yet somehow lovable paterfamilias. Papa was dissatisfied with ordinary schools and instructed Norbert personally until the boy went to high school. Papa, a good teacher was also an irascible man, and whenever Norbert stumbled, there would come streaming down upon him a flood of invective in German: "Fool! Donkey! Ass...
...Mark Fallon, the therapeutic gambler who gives a rapid fire Freudian analysis between kisses to Angelica Durean (Piper Laurie), Tyrone Power is insufferable enough to have even his love exclaim, "you egotistical ass." Having Piper Laurie around is never unpleasant, but if you come to see her act you had better stay at home. Probably the most creditable actress is Julia Adams, whose unrequited love of Fallon has moments of convincing tenderness...
...most encouraging to read of Paul Blanshard's attempt to have Archbishop O'Hara's American citizenship revoked [TIME, March 2]. I only hope we can count on Blanshard's continuing to make an ass of himself...
NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASS...
...objected to "mass-produced" college teaching, eight university presidents answered him. A year and a half ago, when the News asked its readers how they liked Harris, more than 2,000 letters poured in in a few days, with verdicts ranging from "He's a conceited ass" to "Keep him always . . . always...