Word: isn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...private talk recently, Italy's President Giovanni Gronchi once again urged his old friend, Left-Wing Socialist Leader Pietro Nenni, to break with the Communists. Sadly Nenni replied: "That's exactly what I'm trying to do. But it isn't easy, Dio mio, it isn't easy." Last week, for the first time in ten years, Nenni broke with the public Communist line on a fundamental policy issue. European unity. But Dio mio, it wasn't easy...
Spectacle & Sport. But even the doubters admit that Levy & Co. and their durable pacers and trotters put on a good show. Harness racing, maintains Levy, is a more spectacular sport than flat racing. "The interval between our races isn't boring. These horses are out there all the time, running back and forth in front of the stands, warming up. Some of them run five, six miles a night before the race. You can't do that with a thoroughbred. And the lights all make it look better. In the next ten years, harness racing will double...
...herself so ragged while making Jeanne Eagels, and simultaneously preparing for the recently completed Pal Joey, that she landed in the hospital with exhaustion. Says a friend: "Harry Cohn thinks he can make Kim an actress. But it's a terrible strain on Kim. She knows she isn't an actress, but she's ambitious. She cracks up under the pressure...
Ticks & Politics. "The difference between Harry and Norman," says one old-time Angeleno, "is that Harry sat in his office and ruled this city like a king. Norman doesn't rule; he isn't interested in ruling. What he wants is to become an institution." Yet in a town where the Times is one of the few enduring institutions, Norman Chandler knows better than to try to wield an overpowering political club. Today's Los Angeles is too amorphous for one man to rule, one newspaper to command,* or even one political organization to anneal. The Times...
Hollywood, where buccaneering has long been an art, is echoing with cries of piracy against the TV producers. Charged Movie Director George Sidney last week: "TV isn't satisfied with exhuming old movies from the cemetery. Now it's taking our children before they're even born...