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Help from a Proverb. In a Brooklyn flat, where candles to the Virgin had been burning for more than a year, Mr. & Mrs. Philip Chiarelli saw their son's name flashed on the television screen at midnight. A minute later, excited neighbors began calling; soon an impromptu party got under way. "An Italian proverb," rejoiced father Chiarelli, "says hope is something that even the poor can afford. We had plenty of that...
Winchell is a member of a minority group, and therefore shouldn't sound off about being the "foremost champion of human rights," when it's his duty to stand up for the minorities. La Baker's persistent invasions of plush society spots smack of a trite proverb: give her enough rope and she'll hang herself! Sugar Ray's threat to withdraw from the Damon Runyon Memorial Fund (unless the situation is cleared up) is detrimental to his reputation as a champion. Is the fund a project for saving thousands of cancer victims...
Sheeler, whose wife had died during his twelve years in prison, was now 35. He had spent much of the time behind bars trying to educate himself; he betrayed no bitterness. Sobs shook his slim body when he was freed. But afterwards, he said, quoting a Chinese proverb: "He who seeks revenge digs two graves...
Bitterness & the Boy Scouts. By the end of World War II, Syngman Rhee had little left of the pacifist idealism which had motivated him in 1919, had acquired a bitter and intimate understanding of the Korean proverb "When whales fight, the shrimp are eaten." Bypassing the Secretary of State, he persuaded the War Department to return him to liberated Korea simply "as a private person." General John Hodge, who commanded U.S. occupation forces, saw in Rhee a possible rallying point, a focus which might bring order out of South Korea's chaos. When Hodge led Rhee onto a platform...
What Makes a Hungarian. Most of the Voice propagandists are natives of the countries to which they broadcast. Generally, the various language desks have preserved their national temper. The Russian desk can be as heavily humorous as Andrei Vishinsky, and just as ready with an old Russian proverb. The Hungarians are sentimental and fiercely nationalist. When Hungary's Red regime abolished the old Hungarian coat of arms, the Hungarian Voice cried: "These emblems speak not only of old glory, but of defeats, of knights, heroes, tales of adventure and fairies-everything that makes a Hungarian a Hungarian...