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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Easy Living concerns the escapades of two American expatriates who sleep in or about Paris and London. One, a bastard named only Wyeth, moves from bed to bed, uncaring and undiscriminating, seeking only to assuage a deep-down itch. His friend, Harry Steiner, is escaping from his middle-class Bronx past, from the squares back home, from his own terrible insecurity. They dig the easy life, the life of least resistance, the life of escape via jazz, junk, drink...
...shoes of Philippine National Hero Ramon Magsaysay, he has used the office of the presidency to entrench himself and his Nacionalista Party. But despite enormous expenditures, Garcia failed to poll as many votes in 1957 in retaining the presidency as did Liberal Party Leader Diosdado Macapagal, 48, an old friend of Magsaysay, in winning the vice-presidency. Miffed, Carlos Garcia barred Vice President Macapagal from Cabinet meetings and isolated him from the government...
...columnist and a roving judge of dog shows, Riddle has been bitten only once, at a show years ago in Tennessee. The offending entry, a basset hound, paid dearly for its bootleg nip: it was disqualified on the spot. Riddle is devoted to man's best friend ("I'm just a sucker for dogs"), but he considers biting (especially Riddle) the unpardonable sin. To a lady asking how to cure her dog of chewing on the baby, Riddle replied tersely: "With a .45 pistol...
...before the Vatican summoned him in 1925. As first U.S.-born staff member of the State Secretariate, Spellman translated and delivered in English the first papal radio broadcast, stayed for seven years, part of that time as attache to the Vatican's secretary of state and his close friend, Cardinal Pacelli, later Pope Pius...
...more seriously, Author Love might well include a soldier who certainly led his own life, constantly asking his comrades how they felt about death, marveling at the spectacle of war, wondering at man's urge to destroy. That man would have been Lieut. Glenn Gray, writing to a friend on the riddle of cruelty: "Joy and beauty have many different faces, but brutality and hatred have but few. I have come to the extremity of knowing beyond all doubt that there is no other way for me to survive this period except the hard Christian way of finding...