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...spinsters (technically all unmarried women over 25) have cut loose once a year on the day of their saint (who was a spinster herself). Last week, according to custom, the procession of "Catherinettes" (composed largely of midinettes in crazy headgear) stampeded to the saint's statue on the garish Boulevard St.-Denis. An old tradition permitted all men to kiss any spinster they encountered on St. Catherine's Day, but this was outlawed by some busybody reformers in 1933; last week, as usual, the 1933 prohibition was roundly ignored...
...Rome, too, there was a battle. Into the lassitude of falling autumn leaves burst the garish colors of election posters, the shrill sounds of political hoodlumism. One night, when right-wing Socialist Matteo Matteotti tried to speak in a shabby Rome suburb, Communists attacked him and knocked him to the ground (he is the son of Giacomo Matteotti, the Socialist martyr killed by Mussolini's thugs in 1924, whom the Communists still treat as an idol). Another evening, Communists cornered a group of young Christian Democrats. One Catholic youth of 22 was kicked, beaten and knifed to death...
...young shipping clerk or a ?5-a-week railroad carter like her father. One glamorous day, when Cinemactor Ray Milland came to London, 16-year-old Katherine wangled an interview with him and Ray promised to get her a screen test. Katherine told all her friends, and the garish News of the World sent a photographer around to take her picture...
Berkeley's Engineers' Glade was buried under an unsightly array of temporary buildings ; another row of prefabs made a garish contrast with the Italian architecture of U.C.L.A.'s Royce Hall. Even the floor of the men's gym at Berkeley was in use for classes, and regular classrooms ran as late...
...portraits of her husband, Argentina's President Juan Perón, were placed strategically on the walls; new Louis XV furniture was installed in her bedroom. A new floor of shining tile was laid for the main entrance, doors were painted garish green, marble stairs were shined mirror-bright. No one could blame Embassy officials when their bright new decorations became the background for the first jeers that Evita had heard since her European tour began June...