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...Fascism. To most Italians, who rate music as important as food and wine and a good deal more important than politics, that lever was a powerful one. To music-loving Germans (who gave him a smashing reception as conductor of the Bayreuth Wagner Festival) it was only a shade less powerful...
Timid Monopoly. Minister of Information Brendan Bracken remarked on this depressing shade recently in the House of Commons, invited "a complete examination of the whole setup of the BBC" before renewing its charter. Commons adjourned without committing itself, but the solid, thoughtful Economist snapped up Bracken's invitation. Said the Economist...
Critics agreed that the collages were gay and witty. Nearly everybody agreed that they were decorative and colorful. Many of them are done in Varda's favorite shade of violent pink. Varda charges a flat rate of $75 a collage. "Soixante-quinze [75]," he says, "just like the French guns in the World War." So far he has sold eight pictures...
...soda jerker at South Hadley's sole fountain said bon jour to customers who last week asked for the soda au chocolat. Under the nearby shade trees of Mount Holyoke College's New England campus, entretiens (discussions) raged in French...
Also prominent among the women was Mrs. Lois de Lafayette Washburn, who always signed her letters "T.N.T." More shocking to "Pagnanelli" than her leaving the shade up while undressing was her insistence that Pearl Harbor had been secretly arranged by the New Deal. "George Pagnanelli" was given the eagle emblem of Mrs. Washburn's Yankee Minuteman. "I'd better run back to the hotel and pack up," she shrieked. "The serpents and vipers are after...