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...among the neoclassic marble buildings built by Mussolini for a world's fair that never came off, Nerone centers on two sightseeing U.S. sailors who are knocked unconscious by thugs, carried back to a dream world of Nero's Rome. For the rest of the picture they caper happily through bosomy bedroom scenes, run afoul of a fleshy Nero, are finally thrown into the arena where they organize the gladiators for a rousing game of American-style football. Sample scene: Nero's seductive wife Poppaea (played by Italy's top pin-up girl Silvana Pampanini) lolling...
...Counterpotter. Far from being merely a dry manual, Potter's book is alive with the personalities of real Lifemen. There are men like G. Odoreida, a thorough cad even by Lifemanship standards (to a fellow Lifeman ecstatically in love he would dryly remark: "Well, how is your little caper with Julia going?"). And there are crafty operators like G. Cogg-Willoughby, whose most famous victory came at a weekend party against an egregious hostess-nobbier named P. de Sint, the kind of man who develops a rich, bronze suntan in a matter of hours...
...have kept over all ex-criminals in Boston and vicinity. According to reliable reports, several of the more carefully watched have asked high Washington officials to try and get the pressure taken off. America's chief racketeers have come to regard Boston as a dangerous area for "pulling a caper," or whatever they're calling it these days...
...accounts of the short, sharp encounter seemed to tally. Most of the 24,069 fans didn't even see it. Sportwriters, radio announcers and TV took a quick look, dismissed it casually as another cap-snatching caper of the kind that is a common occurrence at the Polo Grounds. But not Fred Boysen. He cried out for a doctor, was taxied to a hospital. There, according to an attendant, he achieved "a couple of really impressive faints." In less time than it takes to beat out a bunt, a lawyer was at his bedside, making talk of a damage...
...freshmen will get the jump on spring term social activities Saturday with a "Cupid's Caper" dance. Valentine's Day provides the motif for the weekend festivities and an excuse to crown a "Valentine Queen of the Dance." Four '52 men who organized themselves into a barbershop quartet for the Yale dance will perform again Saturday...