Word: gino
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...John Beauvais '49 were to blue pencil every word, phrase, or paragraph which does not contribute to whatever single intention provoked "Gino's Little Brother," he might have considerably intensified his effect. As it is, he keeps dragging diversions before the eye and ear in an amusing but disturbing...
...acting, however, is superb. As Rene LaGuen, the sick, bewildered half-idiot, Marcel Mouloudji is unforgettable. With his raggedy walk and shapeless body, he looks often like a teddy bear but seems, at times, a man possessed. LeGuen's cellmates, Raymond Pelligrin as Gino and Antoine Balpetre as Dr. Dutoit, the one a young Corsican feudist and the other a resigned old man, make proud and individualistic people for whom legal 'responsibility' can only be irrelevant. It merely intensifies the private obligation to die well. As Rene's kid brother, Georges Pouliouly sometimes seems less bewildered than still...
Meanwhile Joey was getting ready for the big time. An Italian conductor named Gino Lombardi discovered his conducting talent, started training him, e.g., records and scores every day before breakfast. After Joey shared programs in Miami and Long Beach, N.Y.. father Alfidi hired the Symphony of the Air and Carnegie Hall at a total cost of $10,000. Papa is sure Joey will become a great conductor. But if not, there is his baby brother, who, says Papa, already hums the first bars of Beethoven's Fifth at the age of two years...
...putting the finishing touches on a cookbook. Shakespearean Scholar Redmond O'Hanlon, a Manhattan cop, will have a book of Shakespeare puns on the stand this spring. Alice Morgan, 78, who won $32,000, has completed The Investor's Road Map for Simon & Schuster. And Operatic Cobbler Gino Prato recently signed a second $10,000-a-year contract with a rubber company as good-will ambassador to U.S. shoemakers...
...Return of Don Camillo (Rizzoli; I.F.E.), a sequel to The Little World of Don Camillo (TIME, Jan. 19, 1953), continues the slapstick story of Fernandel, a quirky priest who talks both to and back to God. and Gino Cervi, a hot-tempered Communist mayor whose redness seems no deeper than that of a radish...