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...years favorite tourist attractions of the mellow old city of Verona have been an ancient house and a tomb which local guides stoutly insist are the home and the last resting place of Juliet Capulet. In 1937 the success enjoyed by these relics of Shakespeare's famed heroine became too much for the town fathers of Vicenza, a town 30 miles east of Verona. Two ancient castles stood in likely juxtaposition on Vicenza's hills and the town fathers began beckoning the tourist trade with tales that Romeo and Juliet spent their romantic summers there...
...mild, mellow, delicately tuned abstractions that one Manhattan gallery put on display last week would soon become passé. Done by a 38-year-old Italian who signs only his first name, "Afro," they made an interesting historical footnote to the season's splashier shows...
...harvest of old age," said Cicero, "is the recollection and abundance of blessings previously secured." Cicero wrote of the blessing of serenity achieved by a mellow and philosophical mind. Modern industrial man has a different blessing in view: economic security. And, like Cicero, he feels that it should be "previously secured...
...they spell it 'over thar').... He said -'Mee sing with your band?... I said 'Er'wa -'Yea Man' -Now 'tare out over there in the corner and warm your pipes up so's they'll be fine and mellow when I call...
...Bloody Mouth. Nobody could accuse Timesman Krock of truckling for his 'scoop; though Krock is on cordial personal terms with Harry Truman, few Washington correspondents had been more outspokenly anti-Fair Deal. It was simply Krock's good luck in catching Harry Truman off guard in a mellow mood at a private party, and his quickness in sensing a news opening, that had won him his exclusive. What really galled his fellow newsmen was the fact that Krock had once more beaten them cleanly at their own game. In a left-handed way, sulking Newshen Fleeson gave...