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...Tolstoyan. The Italian constitution regards the President as the living symbol of the nation, and for Italy's paradoxical mood of economic prosperity and intellectual concern, the election of Segni was remarkably appropriate. A wealthy gentleman farmer from Sardinia,* Segni has given away 250 acres of his own rich olive groves to landless peasants; in 1950, as Agriculture Minister, he sponsored a far-reaching system of national land reform. Politically, Segni is a moderate conservative who is not likely to stand in the way of reforms planned under Fanfani's opening to the left...
...performance, I wish I could say nothing. The direction, by a gentleman whom, for purpose of argument, I'll call George Spelvin, was not visible to the naked eye, and the acting, with three exceptions, was atrocious. The three were Ellen Jameson (Wilson's girl, Scarlett) who, a Putney girl herself, managed to give her ingenue role a certain amount of real emotion; Susan Stockard (Peter's sister Suzy), who plays a too-much-too-soon high school girl with wacky charm; and Pete Foster, a Leverett House janitor, whose impersonation of himself is a stroke of consummate artistry...
...provided us with an engaging article on the colorful and confused state of Arkansas politics. He has shown that Gov. Faubus' success was not without good reason that he possesses a true political genius notwithstanding the fact that one would not wish one's sister to marry the gentleman. If Mr. Schwartz is to continue his perspicacious analysis of the problems of the South, however, it is to be hoped that he will strengthen his presentation by a more judicious appraisal of the validity of the assertions which he makes concerning religious bodies in the South...
Best bit: Hutton, as chief of the island's intelligence section, arrests an ancient is lander suspected of consorting with the enemy, waggles a thin Rathboney finger, and grimly begins to interrogate the dear old gentleman. The islander seems willing to talk but he can't talk English. Hutton summons an interpreter who speaks Eng lish and Japanese. The old man can't speak Japanese. Hutton summons an interpreter who speaks Japanese and Carolinian. The old man can't speak Carolinian. Hutton summons an interpreter who speaks Carolinian and a dialect called Charono...
...huge deal, which formed the core of the new U.S. Steel Corporation, the beaming banker extended his hand and uttered the ultimate praise of the day: "Mr. Carnegie, I want to congratulate you on being the richest man in the world." What few men knew about "the greediest little gentleman ever created," as one biographer called Carnegie, was his inward conflict over wealth. He fretfully condemned the worship of money as "one of the worst species of idolatry," and in 1889 he wrote that "the man who dies rich dies disgraced." Before his own death in 1919, Carnegie gave away...