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...deadliest denizen of Cartoonist Al (Li'l Abner) Capp's disorderly world is the Lower Slobbovian Bald Iggle, the gentle-looking bird that fixes a maddening, sad-eyed stare upon anybody who tells a lie. If Lower Slobbovia really existed and the U.S. needed an ambassador there, Washington would do well to send Manhattan Dress Merchant Maxwell Henry Gluck. Of all the foreign diplomats in Lower Slobbovia, Max Gluck alone would be so honest that he would run into no trouble with Bald Iggles...
...Rome's most modern newspaper plant, the well-oiled whir of the new Czech presses could not drown the hollow clunk of the empty cash register. L'Unità, the free world's biggest Communist newspaper and second biggest daily in Italy (after Milan's conservative Corriere della Sera), was as deep...
Last week L'Unità folded its once-thriving editions in industrial Turin and Genoa, announced that its sole surviving regional edition in Milan will now serve all three cities-a feat comparable to making over a Pittsburgh daily for readers in Philadelphia and Baltimore. Beyond that, the paper was reduced to running a Page One jeremiad by Party Boss Palmiro Togliatti, imploring the faithful to dig deep in their pockets to save L'Unità from "extermination...
Money-losing (annual deficits more than $1,000,000) L'Unità's financial crisis was brought on by sharp cutbacks in its subsidies from Moscow and from the financially-pressed Italian Communist Party. But its most serious problem is shriveling circulation, now well below 300,000 from a 1953 peak of 1,574,000. So low has stodgy, 33-year-old L'Unità sunk in the eyes of its own staffers that meetings intended to rally support for a "stronger, better" paper in Turin and Genoa last week broke up amid angry attacks...
Ever since he first wooed the future Mrs. Graham with a mid-Depression vow ("Stick with me and we'll be on Easy Street"), Wichita's lively William L. Graham has been making the promise come true. He began with a $200 bank loan in 1936, and at 46 he is worth an estimated $20 million in Kansas oil and real estate. Along the way his talents for enterprise and friendship proved so overpowering that he once sold the late Dale Carnegie a house in Wichita an hour after they met. ("If I couldn't be myself...