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...SISTERS MATERASSI (316 pp.)-Aldo Palazzeschl-Doubleday...
...better part of half a century, the Materassi sisters had dedicated their lives to the proposition that a pair of ladies' drawers, properly stitched, can be a thing of beauty. Teresa Materassi, in whom femininity had been buried like "a luxury she could not afford," did the stitching...
...Italian Novelist Aldo Palazzeschi knew, and in The Sisters Materassi, first published in Italy 19 years ago, he handles the bewildered spinsters with a blend of irony and humor that is calculated to keep his readers smiling. It is a welcome summer change from the recent crop of grim, postwar Italian novels...
...Sisters' Materassi was hailed on its publication in Italy as a "great novel by a great writer." It is scarcely that, but Novelist Palazzeschi knows how to turn a funny phrase, create an engaging character, and tell a charming story...
Speed! The wires spat that, near Milan, on the Grand Prix Course, famed Racing Driver Antonio Materassi is roaring to victory at 120 miles per hour. Death! The car swerves and plunges into the grandstand. Materassi is killed. So are 21 spectators. Cables flash to the U. S. that among the 26 injured was one Mrs. Dorothy Doherty, Bostonian...
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