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...Peter to Papa...
Outside in St. Peter's Square a crowd of 30,000 assembled for Pius XII's birthday blessings, shouting "Viva il Papa!" and "Auguri!" (best wishes). There were presents, too, fit for a Pope: a volume chronicling the Pontiff's achievements in chapters titled "The Pope as Writer," "The Pope as Jurist," "The Pope of the Virgin Mary" (by Thomas Merton), "The Pope's Works for Peace," etc.; another book dedicated to him by the Pontifical Academy of Sciences titled Galileo, Unjustly Condemned; a Steuben glass cup from U.S. Cardinal Spellman...
...that papa's revenge plot isn't clever; it's that Playwright Williams is so much cleverer throwing monkey wrenches into it. What with the wrong person turning up at the right moment, or the right person at the wrong one, or somebody showing funk or something important disappearing, there is endless gang-aft-agleying, and Someone Waiting seems more an obstacle race than a thrill er. Never believable, in time it becomes something of a bore, and though Leo G. Carroll plays the father with his usual deftness, it is on the audience that he really...
...seven children of a small manufacturer. By the time he was three, he was a "terrible little fiend" about music, screaming at his sisters when they struck a sour chord and banging the piano lid on their fingers to make them stop. Impressed with his son's possibilities, Papa Rubinstein bought him a child-sized violin. Artur promptly smashed it. Papa bought another, and Artur smashed that too. Papa gave up, let him concentrate on the then less fashionable piano...
...what?") With the constant physical discomforts and the incessant comic relief of The Nylon Safari, it sometimes seems that the grandeur and excitement of Africa itself rarely caught Tiny Cloete's eye. The Cloetes' closest brush with danger came when a young hippo lost track of his papa and mamma and charged at the rear of their car as a parental surrogate. "I hadn't realized their eyesight was that bad," says Tiny as they speed away...