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...court of Italy's national government, Caruso had been the most hated man in Rome since Mussolini sent him down from the north to be chief of the capital's police and quell the rising opposition to war and Fascism. He had been a practising sadist. He had kept a private apartment where he personally tortured prize victims. He had been lame since the day a gnat flew into his eye as he raced northward in an open car to escape the Allies. The car had swerved into a ditch. Caruso broke...
...Ascetic Sadist. Globular Alfred ("Hitch") Hitchcock has lately become an oblate spheroid by jettisoning some 90 Ib. of flesh. (His starting weight was 295 Ib., his favorite food, beefsteak.) But asceticism has not reduced Hitchcock's abilities as a humorist, raconteur, deadpan artist and the greatest director of cinema thrillers. At a large stag dinner party, when his turn came to enrich the traditional ambience of brandy & cigars with an off-color story, he murmured diffidently: "I have a story, but I'd best not tell it because it's rather long." The clamor...
This accomplished sadist was born of solid middle-class parents (his father was a poulterer) in London, 43 years ago. For a while he was a layout man for an advertising firm. In idle moments he jotted down elaborate titles for hypothetical films. He took them to British International Pictures, was immediately hired as title artist. At 26, Hitch was a director...
...Sadist as well as sleuth, the landlord suavely tortures his tenant for two and a half acts, until finally each gets the drop on the other...
...fairly drool at the mouth, curse the mailman and am in general in a state of frustration when my copy of TIME is late. I wondered what ailed me-now I know-it's the sadist...