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Communist Party strength among the workers is now waning (it has fallen off nationally 10% to 15% in the last six months), and the most staggering defeat of all was its defeat at Fiat (TIME, April 11). Recriminations filled the air. "Time after time," charged Communist Deputy Agostino Novella, "the party had no adequate warning of what was happening." The Communists were hungry for a scapegoat. A meeting last week of the five national secretaries of the party found one. They decided "to liberate Comrade Roveda" from his onerous duties and told him to go take a health cure...
...current Margutta Who's Who would include Sculptor Pericle Fazzini (TIME, March 10, 1952), who holds court in his ground-floor studio; Bulgarian-born Assen Peikov, a society portrait painter who affects a Mongol-style mustache; brunette Novella Parigini, a great friend of Errol Flynn's, who paints sexy calendar girls and looks like one; dignified, 70-year-old Giuseppe Carosi, who lives with his cats in a genteel Victorian apartment; lean, intense Communist Sculptor Nino Franchina, who does abstractions in metals...
...direction, also by Tutchings, has been more successful than his acting. The play an adaptation of Henry James' Washington Square, has added more color to James' pastel novella. The people are stronger, and Catherine undergoes a more major change. Tutchings has handled this well. The lighting, costumes, and Miss Hills' own ability all help to make her metamorphosis from a pathetic wallflower to a determined woman believable, despite the quickness of her change...
Beaded Sweat. His work was a triumph of the will. At his best, he wrote with an audacious, staccato directness which permanently altered the rhythm and content of American fiction. The core of that achievement is the self-explanatory novella, Maggie: A Girl of the Streets, a Civil War novel, The Red Badge of Courage, and a handful of poems and stories, notably The Open Boat, The Blue Hotel and The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky. Written when Crane was 22, The Red Badge was a brilliantly intuitive study of war and the emotions of men in combat...
Frankie is the pawky, gawky heroine of Carson McCullers' slim (195-page) new novel-she calls it a novella. Unlike Novelist McCullers' earlier books (The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, Reflections in a Golden Eye), which were well filled with the complex, morbid relationships of adults, The Member of the Wedding is a serious attempt to recapture that elusive moment when childhood melts into adolescence. The result is often touching, always strictly limited by the small scope of its small characters. Like childhood, it is full of incident but devoid of a clear plot; always working...