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...Debt. Good-natured Little Apostle Don Zeno likes to amble through his Village of Brotherhood in turtleneck sweater and beret, pepping things up with a tune on his accordion. This week his bushy eyebrows were knitted with concern over plans for expansion. More foster mothers have been signing up each year (current total: 100), but Nomadelphia still has a waiting list of 7,000 abandoned children. To take care of the overflow, Don Zeno has bought 3,000 acres for a new "village" on the Tyrrhenian coast...
...take-offs on Wagner, Kabalevsky and Sousa. A waiter sang Ol' Man River and a porters' quartet turned to on Down by the Old Mill Stream, Finally, at his musicians' urging, the 83-year-old little perfectionist stood up to conduct them himself in shirtsleeves and beret. "That was a little out of tune, Maestro," grinned a trumpeter, afterward. Toscanini beamed happily: "Well, a little, but it was good...
...amazing virtuosity. With the utmost case she shifted from the characters to another. She played young women, middle-aged women, and old women; women from Kentucy, Ohio, New England, Sweden and France. All this she accomplished with no more of a costume range than the rearranging of a red beret...
Wearing his famed black beret and crackling with splintery opinions, Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery of Alamein popped into Washington last week. Though his visit was unofficial, Monty, as military chief of Europe's Western Union forces, delivered one deliberate message...
...said the prisoner in sneering condescension to the news photographers who had gathered to see her leave the Landsberg Prison gates, "you must be very poor to be making a living taking my picture." Fat, fortyish and seamy-faced, but pertly dressed in a smart green suit and loud beret, depraved Use Koch, wife of Buchenwald's commandant and renowned as a lampshade collector (human skins preferred), then proceeded to pose for the cameras while 40 black-uniformed guards watched in apathy...