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...Gasperi, who resigned in 1953. However, Italian politicians, especially Christian Democrats, dislike strong leaders, and they will be doubly tempted to cut Moro down-just as they did De Gasperi. Observed one Roman: "Aldo Moro is the father of his party right now, but it's risky being Papa if your children have an Oedipus complex...
...book by A. E. Hotchner (TIME, Feb. 11), a friend and drinking pal of Ernest's during his last years, describing how the prideful lion sometimes fell into black and irrational moods before eventually shooting himself in 1961. In writing these reminiscences, argued "Miss Mary," Hotchner had used Papa's spoken words, which should be considered his property. But New York State Supreme Court Justice Harry Frank ruled that "spontaneous oral conversation with friends" cannot be considered subject to copyright. Random House will publish Papa Hemingway in April...
...TAKE IT WITH YOU. To be and let be is the code of a slightly nutty Manhattan family. Mama writes because a typewriter was delivered by mistake; Papa makes firecrackers in the basement. The APA revival of this 1936 George Kaufman-Moss Hart comedy envelops the humor in nostalgia...
...Pontiff's visit at the downtown Municipal Sanitation Center. "One should not be ashamed of one's work," the Pope told them solemnly. "What would our city be like if it were not for work like yours that keeps it clean?" The garbagemen shouted back, "Viva il Papa!" Then two days later they answered his rhetoric by going on strike, leaving mountains of refuse all over Rome...
...notes he had taken on conversations with Papa should be considered as letters from the author; it was as illegal for Hotchner to use the tape recordings he had made as it is for recordings of the radio broadcast of an opera or a symphony to be copied and sold. Almost all the material of the book, said Mary, was the stuff that Papa could have put into an autobiography. As such, it now belonged to her, and she had not given her consent...