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...said with a shrug, "Such is life," and was dropped to his death. Ever since, the legend of Ned Kelly, the last of Australia's hell-for-leather desperadoes, has lingered on as Australia's private pride and public shame, celebrated in half a dozen movies and retold in scores of paperbacks and biographies. Now Ned Kelly is riding hard across the canvases of young Australian painters set on finding a theme that will stamp their works as authentic Aussie...
...familiar, almost mythical theme, turns it upside down and irradiates it with originality. His hero is Morris Bober, an aging Brooklyn grocer who is clinging to solvency by his fingertips. But Morris is also that legendary Jewish figure of misfortune, the schlemiel, whose fate has been told and retold from the Old Testament to Sholom Aleichem. Bobers good intentions gain him nothing but hard knocks. The only dangers he escapes are imaginary ones. Yet, through all his woes, there shines unblinkingly the steady light of a good heart...
...fault with the verdict but because Judge Francis L. Valente, trying to avoid press exploitation of the gamy details, had barred reporters and the public from the trial. The new trial was wide open. Once more Judge Valente was on the bench, and Call Girl Pat Ward, only 21, retold her sordid idyl of life with Mickey...
...blind hope that they might otherwise never have known. Blind herself, she was determined to break down Thailand's traditional indifference to the handicapped, eventually founded the first school for the blind that the country has ever had. Last week, 8,700 miles away, her story was retold at a special ceremony in Philadelphia. There, as part of the city's Education Week for the Blind, Genevieve Caulfield received in absentia a small, belated, but much deserved reward: a plaque for her "great contribution in the field of education of the sightless...
...soon as the Bulletin story appeared, it was picked up by the Associated Press, reprinted in papers all over the U.S., retold with relish on radio and over a thousand dinner tables. The Bulletin was flooded with long-distance calls from other papers asking for more details. Checking with state police, the Bulletin quickly found out that the story was not true. It had been printed lightheartedly the day before by a Boston columnist, was probably read by a prankster, who phoned it into the Bulletin as straight news. But Bulletin Managing Editor Mike Ogden had no regrets. Said...