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White House. Watching General MacArthur's homecoming address to Congress, Tony Leviero shrewdly guessed that President Truman might want to publish his side of the foreign policy argument by releasing the secret minutes of the Truman-MacArthur Wake Island meeting. Levi-ero's hunch was right, and he got an exclusive story from the White House that made front pages all over the U.S. (TIME, April...
Though enthusiastic about the election of Walter C. Carrington '52 as third marshal of his class, Levi Jackson's captaincy of the '49 Yale football team, and Nell Cochrane, president of the Smith College student council, he remarked that the South is still sadly lacking in educational equality...
...real name was Edward Zane Carroll Judson. His father, Levi Judson, fifth generation of an old Connecticut family, wrote solemn essays on the nature of man, and tried his best to ground his son in the elements of decent behavior. Ned was about twelve years old when he ran away to sea; at 15 he was a midshipman in the Navy. At 21, he was dashing off sea stories and editing Ned Buntline's Magazine (a "buntline" is the rope at the bottom of a square sail). Two years later, a recent widower, he was caught in a Nashville...
...work in Paris, Cairo, New York and Honolulu. He has been the subject of a documentary film. He has launched his own art movement. At his first Rome show last week, the dark-eyed youngster shyly received the personal congratulations of a group of distinguished Romans, including Writers Carlo Levi and Alberto Moravia, Sculptor Pericle Fazzini and Painter Afro Basaldella...
There was nothing narcotic about the year's novels from Italy. The two best were by Alberto Moravia: Conjugal Love, which dealt with a nasty marriage conflict without becoming nasty, and The Conformist, the case history of a weakling whose weakness made him a Fascist. Carlo Levi (Christ Stopped at Eboli) came a cropper with The Watch, a sympathetic but unfocused look at his postwar land, but Giuseppe Berto followed an uneven first novel (The Sky Is Red) with The Brigand, the story of an Italian Robin Hood which exposed the despair of ordinary people with a fine mixture...