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...Vicki," says Papa Mariles, "she has a very strong character and lots of courage. Berto, he is more quiet, his trouble is he don't turn the corners too well. Vicki, she turns those corners very well. She knows that is how you save time, but she still has to learn one important thing. You see, when a horse is racing fast, he flattens out across the jump. When he comes down, you have to encourage him a little-go 'Hah! Hah! Hah!' in his ear to help him go over the next jump...
...general obviously seeks perfection. But at show's end, Vicki and Berto tied for sixth in the individual rankings, a highly creditable performance in competition against the world's best horsemen. Father Mariles had obviously produced a pair of successors Mexico could be proud...
...Berto Lardera, 45, is a self-taught Italian abstractionist who now lives and works in Paris. One of the fast-growing school of sculptor-welders, Lardera got his start in 1944 in war-damaged Florence when he found twisted chunks of iron and scrap in the rubble, and began to use metal instead of stone. He sketches his sculptural idea on paper before cutting up sheets of metal with shears and blowtorch, then welds the pieces together into the finished product. Over the years he has also learned to unite copper and iron, and graft brightly colored mosaics into...
...finest movies ever made. They gave Italy a major industry, and treated moviegoers everywhere to the likes and looks of fiery Anna Magnani and smoky Silvana Mangano. Italian painters and sculptors, artistically confined under the Fascists, have broken free. The earthy realism of such Italian novelists as Moravia, Berto...
Editor Arabel Porter's prize catch is a chapter from an unfinished novel by Michael Seide. a Brooklyn story writer with a rare feeling for the depression years. Some other standout pieces: a story about an Italian P.W. in a U.S. hospital, by Giuseppe (The Brigand) Berto; a grisly novelette about a tubercular who marries to escape a domineering mama, by the 21-year-old French prodigy, Jean-Baptiste Rossi; a lively critical comparison of Mickey Spillane and Georges Simenon by Charles Rolo. If half the 110,000 copies of New World Writing are sold, the publishers will break...