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...raise money, Giulio persuades his father to sell the farm where the old man had hoped to die, moves him and his chickens to languish in the city in a cramped spare room. Still short of capital, he makes a hilarious botch of peddling himself as playmate for a prune-faced contessa. Finally, he tries to retain the stance of a jealous husband while sending his wife off to beg a loan from an old admirer...
Thwarted Love. In the 1930s, the once funny comics grew ever more solemn. Dick Tracy introduced blood and bullets that had long been taboo, plus an assortment of grotesquely drawn but weirdly fascinating hoods: Prune Face, Fly Face, No Face. In Terry and the Pirates, Milton Caniff soon replaced the pirates with the Japanese-Terry was the first comic strip to go to war. Later Caniff gave up the youthful Terry for the more mature Steve Canyon, a seat-of-the-pants pilot who fights the battles of the Air Force so effectively that Caniff was once denounced...
...giving him power to prune the legal thicket, the Labor Government has chosen a barrister who is said to know more about common law than any man alive. Rarely has a new Lord Chancellor been so acclaimed. Gardiner is "probably the only left-wing lawyer unreservedly admired by a right-wing bar," says the London Sunday Times. The nonpolitical English Law Society predicts that "he will make the form of the law a living thing in the lives of the people...
...change on the first Sunday of Advent (Nov. 29), the beginning of the ecclesiastical year. Sweeping as the revisions seem, they are only the beginning. In Rome, the Vatican Council's Liturgical Commission is at work on a major revamping of the structure of the liturgy, which will prune off many rites and prayers that were added to the original Roman Mass, provide a greater variety of scriptural readings...
Adenauer was "a lemon on a flagpole," Gandhi "a pyramid of homespun cloth topped with a dried prune," George Bernard Shaw "the devil's Santa Claus," John D. Rockefeller "the mummy of Rameses II." Churchill had a face "put together like early rose potatoes"; Franklin D. Roosevelt was "a fox grafted onto a lion" who "used his jaw as men use hands and elephants use trunks." If the descriptions sound like notes for a cartoon to be drawn later, there is good reason. The words belong to Emery Kelen, a Hungarian-born caricaturist who has spent most...