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...late 1930s, when leftward-leaning young MacLean, then the ambitious foreign-office cub, and his future wife first made friends with an other young couple-Italian-born Scientist Bruno Pontecorvo, a favorite pupil of France's Physicist-Communist Frederic Joliot-Curie, and Pontecorvo's Swedish mistress...
With a few exceptions, the top-selling novels of 1953 were set in the long ago and far away. Danish Novelist Annemarie Selinko's Désirée, a sentimental historical about the adventures of an early mistress of Napoleon, fought it out for first place for several months with a holdover from last year, Thomas Costain's The Silver Chalice. At the end, both were overhauled by a new edition of Lloyd Douglas' The Robe, which, boosted by the movie, recovered the top place on the list that it first won in 1943. With similar...
When Shamela opens, Sham, unlike Pam, is not running from but gunning for the young squire, son of her late mistress, and writing her mother progress reports: " 'Laud,' says I, 'Sir, I hope you don't intend to be rude'; 'no,' says he, 'my Dear,' and then he kissed me, 'till he took away my Breath-and I pretended to be Angry, and to get away, and then he kissed me again, and breathed very short, and looked very silly; and by Ill-Luck Mrs. Jervis came...
...Schwarz, who, besides contributing to the lyrics, played Maximilian Feek, the adman himself, with gusto, humor, and even subtlety when it was needed. Juggling the whims of ball-bearing manufacturer S.J. (does in dry dead-pan by Walter Littell) with the extra-curricular passions of Electra, his brassy mistress, played by Hugh Fortmiller, Feek is ulcered into finding a new advertising glmmick to sell ball-bearings. With the help of vice-presidents Arbuthuot, Moriarity, and Carmichel (Ed Bursk, Stove Bolster, Tim Nichols), and a slogan-grinder-turned-playwright named Nadworney (William Allison), Feek finally produces a deus-exmachina legitimate play...
...family of Clara Petacci, mistress of Benito Mussolini who died with him at the hands of a Milanese mob in 1945, sued the Italian government for return of 36 love !enters from Il Duce to Clara, plus pages from her diary and other personal documents. Although the government confiscated the papers because of their "national historical interest." Rome buzzed with the word that the letters are not yet entirely historical. As the rumor went, the government is reluctant to part with evidence that many a now prominent Italian asked favors of Mussolini through the dictator's doxy...