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Crowned: Cinemactress Alexis Smith, by roly-poly California Sculptor Yucca Salamunich. who says she has The Sexiest Head in Hollywood. Judy Garland, Salamunich decided, has The Least Sexy Head. Excerpt from the admiring sculptor's informal citation to Miss Smith: "She has the perfect North American head. Those high cheekbones and yunnnh! That nose! Long and straight. Passionate women always have long, straight noses...
Francis Cardinal Spellman contributed some of his own versifying to Manhattan's formal presentation of seven city acres to U.N. Excerpt from the Cardinal's poetic invocation...
...next week. Modern readers will miss the drums and tramplings of the King James version-but the simple, matter-of-fact English of Britain's witty, whodunit-writing Monsignor Ronald A. Knox (The Psalms, Sheed & Ward, $2) gives some of David's songs a sharp new applicability. Excerpt (Psalm...
...brought over into something very like Basic English. Last week, Bostonians tuning in on a chat between Socrates and Adeimantus On Tyranny (The Republic, Book VIII) might have thought they were hearing a couple of Harvard scholars fogging their horn-rimmed glasses with deep sighs over current world events. Excerpt...
...reads a copy of every business letter (sometimes there are hundreds) sent out by Mutual to clients and stations that day. Betweentimes, he scribbles away at the MBS Open Circuit, a diary which he gets printed up once a week and circulated to all "Mutualites" and clients. Excerpt...