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Sobriety's rise had one interruption. Lloyd posed for a publicity gag shot lighting a cigarette from the lighted fuse of a small bomb. Someone had made a mistake: the bomb was no fake. It exploded, blowing a hole in the ceiling and taking away part of Lloyd's face and the thumb and index finger of his right hand. Only determination pulled him through the accident and the subsequent surgery. But back into the movie business he went. The intent, slightly bewildered, obviously virtuous face of Harold Lloyd began popping out at movie audiences in thousands...
...frequently, he became a thorny symbol. The State Department had never recognized the armed annexation of his country by Russia. Russian diplomats bitterly resented his presence at White House functions, coolly declined invitations on the grounds of illness if he was to be present. "Bilmanitis" became a Washington gag. When he died last year, the Russians recovered from Bilmanitis. But they well knew that they might have a relapse. While there is no Latvian Government in Exile, Latvian Minister to London Karlis Zarins still holds the extraordinary power to appoint diplomats (granted him by his government just before the Russians...
...colored by a tired tenderness for people too much at the mercy of their own appetites and apathies to fight or even to visualize the blackshirt terror closing in. Some readers will not have the patience to keep track of the dozens of lightly sketched characters; others will gag on the implication that communism was the only answer to Mussolini. But A Tale of Poor Lovers is no U.S.-brand party-line novel. It is wise, involved and European-a swarming microcosm of social and psychological complexities in modern Italian life...
...world champions of 1948, were turning up their toes. After they had lost 17 of their first 29 games, the club's publicity-minded president, Bill Veeck, announced that they were going to start the season all over again. There was a mock flag-raising ceremony and the gag snapped some life into the weary Indians. Then the club slumped again; its hitting was sadly...
...court, three stations and a commentator were fined from $100 to $500 (TIME, Feb. 7). They appealed the decision, contending that it was a threat to free speech and a free press. Last week, at Annapolis, the Maryland Court of Appeals agreed; it threw out Baltimore's gag rule as "illogical." Declared the court: "We are well aware of the high motives [involved] in attempting to keep the stream of justice undefiled by sensationalism . . . [But] trials cannot be held in a vacuum, hermetically sealed against rumor and report...