Word: redness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Communist Party, which got back into business the day Batista fell, is today at the peak of its influence. Its 24,000 members form the only active political party on the island. Card carriers or sympathizers in key civilian spots include: Carlos Franqui, former proofreader on the Red daily Hoy and now editor of Castro's paper La Revolution (circ. 80,000); David Salvador, chief of the labor federation; Francisco Alonso, head of the National Fine Arts Commission; Vicentina Antuña, chief of the National Institute of Culture...
...office, and the scramble for the little statuettes was long and rough. Since most of the Academy's 2,087 voters are in Hollywood, the trade papers were barraged with publicity as carefully aimed as that in any congressional race. Actor David Niven, clearly a red-hot contender, paid for some $1,500 worth of personal ads for himself. His producers, Hecht-Hill-Lancaster. shelled out even more. "We evaluate the opposition," explained one film flack, "and figure how we go from there...
...With lanky (6 ft. 10 in.) Bill Russell mopping up the backboards, the Boston Celtics crushed the Minneapolis Lakers in four straight games to win the playoffs of the National Basketball Association, justify the claim of winning Coach Red Auerbach that they were "the greatest team in the history of the sport...
Braine's novel, in fact, presents a startling parallel to The Red and the Black. Like Julien Sorel in Stendhal's masterpiece, Hero Joe Lampton (Laurence Harvey) is a handsome young parvenu of considerable practical intelligence. Rising 25, he sits at his desk in the town hall and dreams the usual "clerk's dream" of sports "cars, town houses, Riviera villas, linen sheets-and women who look right in them. "I'm going to have the lot," he announces grimly one day, and, like Sorel, he sets his cap for the daughter (Heather Sears...
Died. Mario de Bernardi, 65, Italian aviator who, in a little red Macchi-Fiat seaplane, won the Schneider Cup in 1926, breaking Lieut. Jimmy Doolittle's record with an average 246 m.p.h.; of a heart attack; in Rome. Once known in the U.S. as the "Flying Fascist," De Bernardi was a World War I ace (nine enemy planes), flew experimental jets as early as 1940, in recent years put all his savings into the development of a two-cylinder, 40-h.p. single-seater not much bigger than the dragonfly for which it was named. Last week De Bernardi heard...