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Whether Pippo works in a Luxembourg steel mill, digs coal in Belgian mines or mans a Volkswagen assembly line in West Germany, he may well receive identical letters from Vittorio, Gino, Maria-Teresa and all his other party friends back home. Last week local Communist Party offices were passing out "Dear Pippo" form letters to home-town comrades to send to their migrant-worker friends in other European countries-a switch on the 1948 campaign, when Italian Americans wrote to relatives in the old country urging them not to vote Communist...
...Campbell pushed his own diplomacy. Early this year he raised $4,800 from folks in his home-town area and borrowed $6,000 to help pay for a trip for himself and another son to the Sudan, where he hoped to meet with the rebels. He speeded up his plans when the guerrillas announced that they would kill both captives at the end of April unless they got $3 million in ransom. Campbell finally reached Khartoum late in the month accompanied by two British journalists, who had befriended Steve in captivity, while covering the rebels. The newsmen brought along...
...relentlessly enterprising tenor from Islip, Long Island. For years he struggled to build a career-through such gimmicks as sending out little boxes of lemon Jell-O to deejays and record-company executives to remind them, should the occasion arise, how to pronounce his name. Now Lemongello and some home-town backers have forcefully raised the momentous question: Can an independent singer hit the big time by marketing himself like so much, well, JellO...
Hughes married twice. In 1925, at 19, he wed Ella Rice, a comely home-town girl from a prominent Houston family. They were divorced four years later. In 1957, he married Actress Jean Peters, who also had homespun qualities. She gave up her film career and joined Hughes in seclusion until they parted after 15 years; she got a settlement of $50,000 annually for life...
Kinflicks is also an abundantly entertaining progress through the unsettled 60s. Virginia Hull Babcock, 27, comes home to Tennessee to care for her ailing mother. The act is not exactly unselfish, since Ginny has nowhere else to go; her Vermont husband has just thrown her out for practicing sexual yoga with a Viet Nam War resister. The home-town setting reminds Ginny of the home movies-kinflicks, as she and her two brothers called them-that her parents lavished on the events of her childhood. She begins mentally unreeling the X-rated scenes the old folks never...