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...issue continues to show Lollobrigida & Co. Without the names to identify, they all look alike-with their bosoms trussed high, their black eyes, sullen lips and the inevitable Italian haircut. Would certainly be most interesting to see these same Italian glamour gals by the time they arrive at the ripe age of 40. We would undoubtedly beg for the forgotten All-America girl who looks just as good...
During the Irish Rebellion of 1798 priests were sometimes executed by the "pitch cap": a tonsure of tar was ignited on the condemned man's head. Honor Tracy gives her own light twist to those cruel days. She drops a ripe red mulberry on the head of the canon. Its juice is the same color as his own flushed scalp. From there on, talented Author Tracy rarely, if ever, relents. In one word, the story is Irish, perhaps - to borrow the judgment Joyce's Dedalus made of his "all Irish" father - it is "all too Irish...
...Soviet foreign policy is "to lull the vigilance of the free world and to weaken its readiness to defend itself. Above all, they want to smash first the mighty, protective shield of NATO and to drive the U.S. from Europe so that Europe will fall like a ripe fruit into the Soviet...
...life span lengthened, but the body is actually healthier at a given age than 50 years ago. Dr. Jones' prognosis: as the conquest of disease goes on, man may expect to creep ever closer to his theoretical disease-free metabolic life expectancy (estimated by some to be a ripe old 120 years...
...Candidate Estes Kefauver the New Jersey apple appeared sweet and ripe and ready for picking. Adlai Stevenson was not entered in the New Jersey primary, and Kefauver, who specializes in trouncing state organizations, saw little to fear in the unpledged slate of delegates headed by Governor Robert Meyner and representing the New Jersey regulars. By so underestimating Robert Baumie Meyner, Kefauver got his apple, all right. But it was bitter and overripe and thrown right in his face...