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...time roughly between When the Kissing Had to Stop and this side of 1984. Only the lewdies (the old) read any more and "newspapers not being read much neither." There is universal social security. The millicents (police) are everywhere. Russia is the dominant influence (the pop singers are Berti Laski and Johnny Zhivago), and it is suggested that Alex and his dreadful droogs (gangmates) get their Russian-based special vocabulary by subliminal propaganda. Life for Alex is real horrorshow (just fine-from the Russian kho-rosho?). Alex wears skin-tight black tights, padded pletchoes (shoulders) and real horrorshow boots...
Died. Basil Garwood ("Professor Lam-berti") Lambert, 58, "mad xylophonist" of vaudeville; after long illness; in Hollywood. Professor Lamberti's best known act: he played repeated xylophone encores, to wild applause, apparently unaware that a stripteuse was performing behind his back...
...British pressure intensified and a heavy pall of battle smoke obscured Bardia, General Mario Berti, commanding the beleaguered Blackshirts, withdrew his guns and massed them on the west side of the town, to cover the evacuation of such men as could be spared and saved. General Berti, who commanded the Italian volunteers in Spain, has a reputation for last-ditch fighting and added to it considerably last week...
Then did I see Bellincion Berti walk...