Word: passione
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pulp novels have a fast turnover, among a limited group. Titles at Felix's stay about the same: "Virgin With Butterflies," "Reckless Virgin," "Passion Girl." The man in charge explained that a customer for these usually bought a serious journal as well. "A man comes in and first he buys the New Republic or Time," he said. "Then he stands around and looks at these for a while, and finally he buys one. When he goes out, the New Republic is on top." As for Radcliffe: "Frankly, I think the girls are just bashful...
Gentle Dr.Albert Einstein has a learned complaint to make in the current Scientific American.* In language shrouded in darkling mathematics, he takes modern physicists to task for what he considers their lack of interest in the greatest problem still unsolved. "There exists a passion for comprehension," writes Dr. Einstein, "just as there exists a passion for music. That passion is rather common in children, but gets lost in most people later on." ¶Present-day physicists, Einstein believes, are so busy gathering facts about the innards of atoms that they have no time for the great, round, four-dimen sional...
...personal life," he keeps repeating, "is nobody's business but my own." His passion for privacy is one of the things that has made him unpopular with gossip-hungry sportwriters and fans. It has also helped conceal an extremely generous nature. On the road he is known to waiters and bellhops as a "buck-tipper" and a soft touch. He divided $1,000 of his 1946 World Series check among the clubhouse helpers. He sends his mother upwards of $7,000 a year, likes to visit shut-in children in hospitals, provided there are no reporters around...
...coveted by the Reds not alone for its strategic advantage. Mao Tse-tung, faced with famine at home, had his eyes on IndoChina's spreading fields of rice. But in Indo-China, the traveler thought, there was also some cause for optimism. Emperor Bao Dai, despite his passion for "sports coats and loud neckties," was intelligent and an energetic leader. So far, with the aid of 130,000 French troops, he had forestalled internal collapse...
...Glee Club and Radcliffes Choral Society will make a tour through New York and Pennsylvania during the spring vacation. In concerts at the Hackley School, in Tarrytown, April 2, in Philadelphia, April 3, and New York, April 4, the combined group will sing Heinrich Schutz's "St. John Passion," and three other pieces. Prior to their trip, the joint chorus will sing at Wellesley, April...