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...throughout their easy workday from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. By law, nothing can tear even the indolent and the inefficient from the payrolls except criminal conviction for repeated flagrant insubordination, which must be proved in a formal trial. Ministries are loaded with "temporary workers" who stay until death. Forbidden to hire new stenographers, the Ministry of Justice put them on the rolls as "prison guards, female, temporary...
September Morn went on to become a staple of calendar art, was reproduced on candy boxes, postcards, cigars and suspenders. Purity leagues demanded its suppression. Postcard reproductions of the painting were forbidden the mails. Art dealers were even arrested for handling them. It became the subject of stock gags on the old Keith-Orpheum circuit, and inspired an anonymous couplet that swept the country...
...liquor per head per year-30% above 1956). Gomulka warned the workers that he could not raise wages until they produced more; the workers replied that they would not work harder without some real evidence of a better life. They began agitating for wage increases, and-though strikes are forbidden in Gomulka's Workers' State-even staged scattered strikes...
Died. Curzio Malaparte (real name: Kurt Suckert), 59, Italian writer (Kaputt, The Skin), polemical journalist and unorthodox cinema writer-director-producer (Forbidden Christ, called in the U.S. Strange Deception); of lung cancer; in Rome. Born in Tuscany of a German father, Italian mother, Malaparte was called Fascism's "strongest pen" during the '203, turned hostile to the regime and was interned (1933-38), most recently accepted Italian Communist financing of a trip this spring to China, but on his return, seriously ill, was baptized a Roman Catholic. Despite his erratic politics, his more than two dozen books, which...
...kind of charm which, incomprehensibly, industrious Pearl Buck has exercised over a generation of U.S. women readers-and even over the Nobel Prize committee. Perhaps unintentionally, the book gives a portrait of merciless maternalism. The real crisis comes when young Rennie, forgetting that father Gerald in Peking has forbidden him to use any but the "stately name of Mother," comes out with the awful truth...