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...valued at $50,000, and more modest shacks on Fire Island's dunes. Water swirled over car tops at Coney Island. Nearly one-third of the total damage occurred in New Jersey. Atlantic City's exposed Steel Pier was partially swept away, stranding the former "Miss America" ballroom. Hundreds of homes were ruined on Long Beach Island, which was sliced into five islets by the waves. At devastated Sea Isle City, a three-story convent was taken over by the ocean just after nuns abandoned it. Some 2,000 people evacuated towns between Atlantic City and Cape...
Shouted a party member from the rear of the crowded ballroom: "Let's talk about Stalinists and anti-Stalinists!" The challenge shocked the 4,000 comrades who jammed Bologna's ornate 13th century Palazzo del Podestá. For as long as he could, the speaker, Italian Communist Boss Palmiro Togliatti, ignored the interruption and continued his prepared address on national politics. Just before he finished, Togliatti replied to the heckler: "We are for the socialist revolution, which has opened the road to a new society. This society has been built by the Soviet Union. Who built...
...town houses that matched and wives who did not, how together they entered the hurly-burly of New York reform politics. They run for Congress-Duggan as campaign manager and Avery, of course, as candidate. As Duggan churns out press releases from a mimeograph machine in a rented hotel ballroom, .his beautiful wife is entering a suite in the same hotel to cheer Avery, who has twisted his neck severely by throwing back his head in a Rooseveltian campaign laugh. Duggan bitterly re-creates the scene: the pink, passive hero, the innocent back rub, the tide of passion...
LOVE AND BE SILENT, by Curfis Harnock (246 pp.; Harcourt, Brace & World; $4.50). Strangers may think that Kaleburg, Iowa, is just a "Siberian collection of buildings," but to Farmer Robert Schneider it means pie and coffee at the Kaleburg Kafé, dances at the Cornflower Ballroom, high old times in Buzzy Burns's tavern, with its row of convenient cabins out back. His wife Donna is both high-spirited and indecisive, but he settles her down with a tumbling succession of babies. His spinster sister Alma proves more difficult. She falls in love with soft-spoken Roger Larkin...
...cumulus cloud of cigar smoke drifted over the Waldorf-Astoria's grand ballroom as the heroes of bygone Saturdays settled back to listen to the speeches and entertainment. The occasion was the National Football Foundation's annual banquet, and the first man on his feet was Bob Hope. He was in top form, and when he sat down again, Hope left the old footballers weak with laughter. "Things have changed," he said. "I took a cab from the hotel to come here, and Carmine De Sapio was driving it." Then he turned to the young collegian award winners...