Word: learnedness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The priest's answer varies. For those who "are strong in the faith," he has a smile and words of encouragement. "We shall win the elections with God's help-it's Christ against Mammon." But encountering one whose faith he judges to be wavering, Don Francesco...
One day last week the Generalissimo returned from his meditative sojourn at Kuling. Nanking learned only that he had passed the days in long walks or, when the weather was bad, in playing Chinese chess with Madame Chiang in front of the fireplace. But there was no doubt of what...
How did Giuseppe feel about his reception? Said he, in the one word of American he learned from G.I.s during the war: "O.K." Born in Sicily, Giuseppe studied for the priesthood until he was 15 and found a girl. ("Until then I thought parents bought children in the market place...
Says Francescatti, with a crinkly grin: "With Ormandy, whom I play with most, I make fun. With Bruno Walter, no; with him it is just the angelic smile." Francescatti likes to take concerts easy-but he keeps his playing clean, forthright and brilliant. A small, excitable Frenchman of 42, Francescatti...
Spit & Matchstick. As "depression architects," the partners had learned all about making a dollar go far. On one of their first jobs-redesigning Los Angeles' Clifton's Cafeteria in 1933-they took out their fees in meals. When their plans won first place in a competition for the...