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...coalition, pending next spring's general elections, was what Italians call a "single color" government-an all-Christian Democratic Cabinet which, since it would lack an assured majority in the Chamber of Deputies, could probably only survive by ducking controversial issues. At President Giovanni Gronchi's request, jovial Adone Zoli agreed to do his best to form such a government...
Rick's Cafe Americain, whose proprietor wears a white dinner jacket, speaks with a faint lisp, and drinks a great deal when unhappy, sports an odd assortment of minor characters; they are bit parts, from which the actors have squeezed everything. Fat Sidney Greenstreet, with fez, is Farrari, the jovial "leader of all illegal activities in Casablanca." Peter Lorre is a funny, intense worm who sells blackmarket visas to refugees stranded in the unoccupied French city; the producers could afford to lead him off screaming after fifteen minutes: but in that time he created a lasting figure...
Back at his Pentagon desk for the first time since his prostate operation, jovial Defense Secretary Charles E. Wilson sorted through a pile of well-wishers' messages, waved one that especially tickled him: "Dear Sir: I wouldn't vote Republican for less than $100,000 . . . but I like you and hope you get well soon. [Signed] A Democrat." "Engine Charlie" later allowed that he was feeling fine and drew guffaws from reporters by boomeranging a bit of Democratic drollery about the health issue. "I might flippantly say," quipped Wilson, "that I'm qualified...
...neglected to instruct his 20,000 state employees to 1) contribute the traditional 2% of their salaries to the Democratic campaign fund, 2) help get out the vote. Last week, though he made it a point to greet President Eisenhower on his arrival in Lexington, the jovial Happy pointedly announced that he would have a previous engagement when Adlai Stevenson comes a-calling...
...sofa, then knocks her down against a table; she retaliates by belting him with a vase and breaking a chair over his head. While the salesman, cowering over his vacuum-cleaner attachments, quavers: "You shouldn't do that!" husband and wife batter each other around the room. Jovial M.C. Jack Bailey explains the hoax: the husband and wife are Hollywood stunt players; the smashed furniture consists of harmless "break away" props-and, while the audience howls, the vacuum salesman is congratulated on being a good sport...