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...need of names to brighten its roster, Mexico's short-handed (membership: barely 5,000) Communist Party offered a bittersweet welcome to a long-lost comrade, Painter Diego Rivera, 67. In 1929, Comrade Rivera was excommunicated because of his growing list of deviations. He had fallen into the habit of firing off peppery pronunciamentos without first clearing them with the proper Red monitors. Confessed loose-lipped Rivera: "I got kicked out for shooting off my mouth." He later even gave haven in his home for two years to Leon Trotsky. Back in the fold again last week, Rivera...
...reply, "Why no, I haven't been across, not recently that is. Of course, I lived there until I was eight, but then . . . you know . . . the Nazis . . . had to leave (your voice should break about here) . . . wouldn't go back for the world . . . memories you know. But (brighten up here) don't you think I've done wonders with that beastly German accent?" Since the only accent you posses is a slight Oxford drawl, picked up during occasional inter-House meals at Eliot, your listeners can not but be impressed by the inherent veracity and pathos of your story...
...those who need something to do with their dates on unstimulating pre-football game Saturday mornings and who want to brighten their Tuesdays and Thursdays as well, these courses fit well in that fourth place on the study card...
...Garry Moore Show (weekdays, 10 a.m., CBS-TV) one day last fortnight, crew-cut Master of Ceremonies Moore decided to brighten the day of a vacationing housewife in his studio audience. Mrs. Margaret Deibel, 26, had come to Manhattan with her appliance-salesman husband from their home in Mount Pleasant, Mich. (pop. 11,000). "Are you rich?" Moore asked Mrs. Deibel. No, said she, but not poor either. "Just for laughs," as he later explained, Moore suggested to his estimated 3,000,000 televiewers that they each send Mrs. Deibel a nickel. That was all there...
...Vargas duly survives the debate without mortal wounds, his own political move-of-the-week will considerably brighten the chances of his congressional supporters in the October elections. Responding to coffee growers who have been worrying that their present high returns might not last, he established a government-support price right at the current market level. Any U.S. hopes for cheaper coffee in the next year faded with Vargas' move. But as one coffee exporter sourly explained: "In an election year he has to do something for the coffee farmers. This...