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...hero of No Place to Run is a kind of composite of the Southern political rabble-rouser with glints of Bilbo and Talmadge, Huey Long and Orval Faubus. Sixtyish, red-gallus-snapping Gene Massie is as loyal as a barracuda, as lecherous as a fruit fly, and as fork-tongued as the serpent who got the first woman's vote from Eve. He bills himself as "the WHITE people's choice" for Governor, and he runs on a platform that has served him ever since he was a two-bit sheriff: "Fightin' the niggers and fightin...
Died. Alfred di Lelio, 77, Rome restaurateur known as "the King of Fettuccine," who-under a spotlight, with house lights dark and violins softly playing-mixed butter into the long noodles with a gold fork and spoon given to him by Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford, attracted food connoisseurs from all sides of the news, among them Hermann Göring, Dwight Eisenhower, Grace Kelly, Harry Truman, Heinrich Himmler, Princess Soraya, King Farouk, Pierre Laval; of a heart attack; in Rome. "There's a little trattoria on the Via della Scrofa where you get the best fettuccine...
Whether Hindu, Moslem or follower of virtually any other religion, India's father of the bride teeters close to bankruptcy. A moneylender's dream, he is forced by custom to fork over a huge dowry for his daughter, start paying off every member of the bridegroom's family with lavish presents of cash and sweetmeats as soon as the engagement is announced. The ideal wedding must be a stunningly beautiful rite that lasts for days, with thousands of gaily colored electric-light bulbs adorning the house, an ornate marquee and a team of cooks to gorge scores...
Meanwhile, Gertrude worked on psychological projects. She collaborated with Leon M. Solomons, a graduate student working on his doctorate in philosophy. Their first attempt, which was "connected with a tuning. Fork," failed because neither had an ear for music. Their second project, on fatigue, proved no more successful. Gertrude next tested motor automatism in the non-psychology, or "normal" student...
...hand. It has brought him twelve knockouts in his 21 pro fights, all of which he won. No windmill mixer, Ingo is so conspicuously unmarked that he often works as a model. A paragon of gentlemanly rectitude outside the ring, he wears natty golf-club blazers, eats with his fork and never forgets his estate. After Patterson's diet of dreary semiamateurs (Pete Rademacher, Roy Harris), Ingo is likely to prove Floyd's first pro foe. Said Ingo: "I am sure that if I punch Patterson with my right, he will stay down...