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Evita still had another week in Spain before she went on to Rome for a quieter round of functions, including an audience with the Pope and a banquet with Foreign Minister Carlo Sforza. Then she would go on to France and England-where she was already getting catcalls from the press. The Socialist Party has urged French Premier Paul Ramadier to declare her unacceptable. And London's big, breezy Sunday Pictorial, which was howling at Argentine beef prices, screamed from a frontpage banner, PRESIDENT'S WIFE is NOT WELCOME. But Evita was used to brickbats; they...
...also comes to doubt that the artist is really blind. His effort to find out, in a walk along the lip of a cliff, is a hair-raising piece of melodrama. Quieter, but no less exciting, are the nasty undertows of purely psychological uneasiness, as the members of this perverse triangle take each other's measure...
...Tribune survived its first days, as a militant "workingman's weekly," by changing its garish typography for quieter dress, increasing its literary and art criticism, tripling its price and courting the "out-at-elbow middle class." The phrase came from its prize, unpredictable Critic-Columnist George Orwell...
...rest of the week, critical as it was for his Administration, the President relaxed. Thanksgiving was a quieter day than the Trumans had expected: daughter Margaret, studying voice in New York, failed to let them know until the last minute that she would not be home for family dinner. Without fanfare, the Trumans attended services at Christ Church in Alexandria, Va., sat in the pew originally bought by George Washington...
Unitarian Mason got the idea in Chicago, where he was one of a group of lawyers who met regularly at luncheon. Mason feels, however, that breakfast is a much better time, because people are quieter in the early morning, hence more inclined to meditation than to small talk. All FTC workers, from head commissioner to janitor, are welcome; some make reservations two months in advance, rouse themselves an hour earlier than usual to attend...