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...Italian drama and opera, il furbo [applied to Mussolini-TIME, June 21] ... is a not-too-sinister trickster and cheat whose schemes, for a time, prosper greatly. Invariably, however, he overextends himself and becomes involved in a fatal tangle. Only the intervention of providence, or some powerful protector who can make selfish use of his talents, saves him from final disaster. He emerges with his life, but shorn of all his gains...
...stooping effigy of Jesus, with jointed arms hanging from a green cotton dress, had human hair on its head. A small naked statue, honored as a protector against syphilis, sat in a shrine made from an old oilcan. A portable sepulcher held a recumbent Christ, whose bloodstained jaw and neck could be moved puppetwise by strings. These crude but striking effigies formed part of an exhibition of Religious Folk Art of the Southwest which opened last week at Manhattan's Museum of Modern...
...politics. Educated at Eton and Sandhurst, he entered the House as Conservative Member for South Northamptonshire in 1900. He was wounded at Ypres in 1914, elected Speaker in 1928. The Scotsman justly called him: "An impartial president over debate, the guardian of the privileges of the House, the protector of minorities, and the defender of freedom of speech." Death came at 73, in the severely blitzed 50-room Speaker's House, directly beneath...
After an unsuccessful trip to Madrid-she was still in her 305-Avril decided to retire. She married a respectable "protector," one Maurice Biais (who died in 1926), and withdrew to a quiet life in a Paris suburb. In 1933, almost destitute, widowed Jane was obliged to abandon her house, enter a Paris home for the aged. Only once again did the world hear of her. That was on May 31, 1935, when 67-year-old Avril emerged to dance once more at a Toulouse-Lautrec ball. Wrote the old lady in 1937: "In this retreat I have nothing...
...Franciscan is rapidly becoming the patron saint for Allied airmen. He is St. Joseph of Cupertino, who from his eighth year was subject to ecstatic visions. "Frequently," says the Catholic Encyclopedia, "he would be raised from his feet and remain suspended in the air." Hence his designation as the protector of flyers, who now wear his medal on two continents...