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...scores of other contests came off in style. The Big Balloon, an undersized young hawker in the piazza of San Cosimato, won 20,000 lira (about $35) for his exceptional fruit stand, which boasted 15 varieties of fruit and a trimming of laurel and myrtle leaves. Grazie Ceci, who is 90 years old and who shares three rooms in Bologna alley with 22 relatives and acquaintances, won a 1,000 lira prize as the oldest grandmother, announced she would spend a good part of it on wine...
...Jepson-Turner). Playing the star of an elaborate rink called the Ice Gardens, and wife of the owner, Belita cuts as fancy a figure on a bedroom set as she does on ice. Her problem is to keep a chilly eye on Wolf Barry Sullivan, a criminally aggressive peanut hawker at the Gardens who covets both his boss's business investment and home life. The big skating spectacles, considerably more thrilling than the thrills-&-chills story, leave hardly any time for tidying up all the plot complications of passion and homicide...
...second half of the play satirizes a group of modern debunkers who skeptically visit St. Anthony's tomb, gloatingly find it empty. But after they have gone Anthony reappears, praising the faith of a poor postcard hawker who has continued to believe...
...faced, balding Henry Lustig climbed from vegetable hawker to wealthy owner of Longchamps, high-priced, highly colored chain of Manhattan restaurants. Last week Mr. Lustig fell. In Manhattan a federal grand jury indicted Lustig and four aides of Longchamps on a charge of evading payment of $2,872,766 in income taxes...
...Canadian plane industry relies upon the U.S. and Britain for designs, motors and instruments. Its prospects for striking out for itself on the postwar markets were slim. Now, the Hawker Siddeley backing and its know-how may put Canada in the postwar aviation-manufacturing race...