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...disk-jockey bait, is "Standing on the Corner, Watching the Girls Go By." Other good tunes include "La Pudanza," "Happy to Make Your Acquaintance," and "I don't Know Nothing About Her." The rest are generally dull, and because the show has no pretension to comedy, the production must lean heavily on its music...
...Europe on his first vacation in five years. Jim was recently appointed police court prosecutor in Hart ford. Bill works for the state tax commis sion. With these jobs and their private law practice, they have a combined yearly income of about $30,000. But there are many lean years behind them, and Jim, for one, was not inclined recklessly to risk what they have already won. "After all," he says, "the law is a precarious profession and it's not easy to come by this much money all at once." And he adds, with typical self-deprecation: "Especially...
...real hero of the Milan drama was a man who had died the week before. He was a lean, jut-jawed parish priest, Don Carlo Gnocchi, who had devoted the last seven of his 53 years to caring for Italy's maimed children. He started the Youth Foundation, which has spread from Milan to Rome and six other cities. In its hostels he housed 2,000 youngsters suffering from almost every handicap known. As he lay dying of cancer late last month, Don Carlo decided to leave two of his wards a last legacy: his sight. He willed...
With this army of Communists, Lo and his comrades carried out one of the greatest collections of purges in history. They had the Russian experience to lean upon, and they were thus able to avoid the fumbling experiments in mass liquidation made by the early Soviet Chekists. But they worked with a cold-blooded calculation that the Russians, with their basically Christian sense of guilt (evident in this week's Moscow disclaimers) never achieved. The Chinese Communists were so certain of their moral right to kill for the revolution that they attempted at every opportunity to make the people...
...rule of thumb: When in doubt about a racial story, use the press-association copy. For example, in the Autherine Lucy riots, papers in nearby Birmingham were the only out-of-town dailies in the South to send their own staffers to Tuscaloosa to cover the story. Sometimes papers lean on the wire services for racial news even in their own areas. When one major daily recently got tips of forthcoming antisegregation statements by religious leaders, it passed the word along quietly to a wire service instead of going after the story itself...