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...Krishna Menon, India's Communist-cuddling roving ambassador, sat at the head table of the National Press Club in Washington one noon last week, his lean fingers coiled and writhed, flitted across his face, danced in the air, groomed his nose. Sometimes he cracked his knuckles with an audible snap. When at last he rose to face the newsmen, his words also coiled and writhed and flitted...
...year-old Sardinian, a lean, fragile lawyer with a beaked nose and unruly white hair, had just been summoned by Italian President Gronchi to try to form a new government to replace the fallen Mario Scelba (TIME, July 4). Earnest Christian Democrat Segni, as Minister of Agriculture in several De Gasperi governments, drew up Italy's postwar land-reform program, but was less of a success at administering it.* He accepted Gronchi's commission early last week and from his paper-strewn apartment on the Via Sallustiana set about canvassing the three small center parties in hopes...
...golf courses around Davenport, Iowa one bright morning last week, then landed at the city's new airport. Above a nearby hangar streamed a banner proclaiming: "Congratulations, we're proud of you, Jack." Below the banner hung a 20-ft. cardboard putter. Out stepped a lanky, lean, tired man in blue slacks and white sweater. A thousand welcomers cheered. Unashamedly, the weary man wept. Jack Fleck, 32, a week after leaving Davenport as one of the nation's most obscure golf pros, was home as the city's No. 1 citizen -rocketed from nowhere to glory...
Milles' fancy is not every man's taste. Though traditional, he is not traditional enough to keep some from ridiculing his exaggeratedly lean figures. One St. Louis art commission member thought Milles' The Meeting of the Waters (above) looked like "a wedding in a nudist colony." Modernists have found Milles wanting in imagination to move beyond the aura of Rodin, and lacking in Rodin's great power. For his part Milles sees little to praise in modern sculpture. "Their work is too stiff," he says. "They take a spiral and make a hole...
Adapted by Director David (Great Expectations') Lean and Novelist H. E. Bates from the Broadway success, The Time of the Cuckoo, the script has dropped overboard many of the plot gimmicks that Playwright Arthur Laurents used as cogs for stage action. With them go some of the harsher truths about the career girl's character and therefore any possibility of comparing Hepburn's performance with that of Shirley Booth in the stage play. The movie is scarcely more than a charming idyl, and it ends only because Kate is convinced that "All my life...