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...most famous son of Collodi, an outlying district of the Tuscan town of Pescia, was a mischievous, woodenheaded youngster named Pinocchio. Ever since Author Carlo Lorenzini, writing under the pen name of Carlo Collodi, created Pinocchio 73 years ago, the impish antics of the bad puppet who became a good boy have delighted children the world over. Two years ago, Pinocchio added another measure to his fame. Professor Rolando Anzilotti of the University of Florence defeated his Communist opponent in the race for mayor of Pescia by promising that, if elected, he would see to it that a suitable statue...
...sees his parents do," i.e., read magazines. As father of four of the biggest children's magazines, Publisher Hecht has copied some adult magazines exactly. Three years ago he put out a junior Reader's Digest called Children's Digest (complete with "book condensations" of Pinocchio, Glister's Last Stand, The Wizard of Oz, etc.) and watched its circulation swell to more than 500,000. Six months ago he launched Humpty Dumpty's, for children from three to seven. By last week its circulation topped...
...central Italian village of Collodi (pop. 1,400), where Carlo Lorenzini ("Collodi") wrote the story of Pinocchio in 1880, has been collecting pennies from schoolchildren the world over to build a monument to its famous little wooden-headed citizen. Each contributor has received a certificate entitling him to tell one harmless lie a week without damage to his nose. Last week such a license was on its way to Walt Disney, who filmed the story of the puppet in 1939 and who had sent a contribution...
...there was a layout of electric trains, a television set, a miniature merry-go-round, and a rack of dolls. If a little girl got attached to a doll, she could keep it; there were more where it came from. Corridor walls were covered with such Disney favorites as Pinocchio and Snow White...
...newest Pinocchio (Pinoculus this time) sold 6,000 copies in a month, and schoolmasters all over Italy were ordering more. Even the Vatican's top classicist, Monsignor Antonio Bacci, was plugging the book as something that Latin teachers have always neededan easy bridge between grammar and the classics. "Here," said Monsignor Bacci, "at last is something...