Word: reading
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...find Lucia Ladanca's name in TIME'S May 30 issue, you had to read most of the way through a seven-column Foreign News story on Italy. At that point the story said: "The most disturbing economic fact of [Premier Alcide] de Gasperi's Italy is the almost hopeless poverty of such people as hunchbacked Lucia Ladanca, a Potenza housewife who lives with her tuberculous husband and eight-year-old son Bruno in a fetid tenement not far from well-stocked stores...
...Lucia does not read or write any language at all, so she went around the corner to a small household supply store owned by brawny Luigi Ottavia, who was born in the States. He read the letters to her and wrote her replies. 'Within the morning,' he told me, 'everybody had heard about it.' They called on her one by one, looked at the letters, which they could not read, and talked about them. Some thought nothing would happen. Others, like Luigi Ottavia, who knew something of Americans, reassured Lucia that 'something will come...
...confirmed the worst suspicions of those who fear or are dismayed by the FBI. How many yards of its magnificent files were filled with just such stuff, and the unsupported malice of gossipy neighbors who reported that the couple across the hall liked to run around in the nude, read the New Republic and entertain Negroes? In a nation where nobody loves a cop, much less a snooper or an informer, the further question arose: Had the U.S. created a budding Gestapo...
Kings & Commoners. The idea of bringing cheap books to the multitudes first struck Haldeman-Julius when he was 15, after he had breathlessly devoured a cheap copy of Oscar Wilde's Ballad of Reading Gaol. Maybe, he thought, if books were cheap enough, more people would read them. Fifteen years later, when he became the publisher of a weekly Socialist newspaper in Girard, Haldeman-Julius decided to try the idea. He pulled out the battered old Ballad and a companion copy of the Rubáiyát, handed them to his perplexed linotype operator to set in type...
Last week the La Jolla (rhymes with Ahoy ya) Playhouse hit a jackpot with a midseason production of Moss Hart's Light Up the Sky. The cast read like that of a grade A cinema-Gregory Peck, Jean Parker, Benay Venuta, Florence Bates-and the first-night audience looked like a Hollywood première. But behind the elaborate façade was the solid work of such self-improving actors as Gregory Peck and Mel (Lost Boundaries) Ferrer, who have carried the load of running the Playhouse ever since David O. Selznick put up $15,000 to help...