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...Island. It's a wise child knows its own father in the best of families, and Arturo's family is plainly not the best. His mother died when he was born, and his father (Reginald Kernan) is a showy-shabby bird of passage who comes home to roost a couple of times a year. The boy (Vanni de Maigret), who is 15, lives all alone in a crumbling villa on a small Italian island, and in his innocence and need for an ideal imagines his old man as a far-wandering Odysseus, as a god whose advent must...
...never mind. In the last reel the enemy pigeons come home to roost. On the whole, a good-natured and harmless attempt to give everybody the bird...
Died. Malcolm Paul Cantrell. 65, Tennessee banker and heavy-handed politician whose powerful Democratic machine allied itself with Memphis' Boss Crump, ruled the roost in southeastern Tennessee's McMinn and Polk counties for a decade until returning World War II veterans formed the G.I. Non-Partisan League to fight him, used Tommy guns and dynamite on election day, Aug.1,1946, to rescue ballot boxes from the county jail where Cantrell's henchmen had hidden them; of cancer; in Athens, Tenn...
...some, the vote meant that the philosophy which shapes the relations between General Education and science at Harvard was complete and satisfactory after 14 years of development. Others found it disturbing that one viewpoint could satisfy so many Faculty members at once. These fears have come home to roost: the last few years have shown that there is a deep divergence of motive among the science departments involved in General Education...
Saroyan wrote this sort of ragpickers' polka, and so, in a quieter tempo, does Novelist Alma Stone. Her poor are the people of Manhattan's upper Broadway-watery-eyed men propped on their elbows in old. moneylosing bars, solitary old ladies who roost on park benches and share their tuna sandwiches with cats...