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Henry Agard Wallace, whose much-publicized project for planting corn on the tiny lawn of his Park Avenue headquarters struck a lot of people as right off the cob, changed his mind. He settled for gladioli, and set foot to spade for photographers...
First, Mr. Bracken spoke of the gratitude we owe to our "fearless, clear-headed leaders who call a spade a spade and recognize Communism for the hideous conspiracy it is." I was not quite sure who he was referring to, but I assume he means the Republican majority in the Congress. It is interesting to note that the Senate Republicans split 24-23 on the most important tool of aid to Europe, ERP, and it was the Democratic minority that brought about passage of the legislation. Or, perhaps Mr. Bracken is referring to the magnificent stand the Southern Democrats...
Died. Tristan Bernard, 81, large-nosed, spade-bearded "last of the boulevardiers," Parisian novelist and playwright; of a heart ailment; in Paris. Besides 50-odd novels, Bernard wrote more than 40 musicals and plays, most of the latter successful, none profound, all witty. His Exile was probably the shortest play ever staged...
...moviemakers have replaced this love story of tortured velleity with one of more baroque appeal-one scarcely, however, so recognizably Venetian, American, or, to name the spade, anything. Briefly, the movie niece (Susan Hayward) is young, has led a void life caring for the old lady (Agnes Moorehead), has compensated by poring over the poet's letters, has conceived a coy necrophilia for him. By day she is the cold spinster, by night ah! with her kitten and her finch and that sill ver oubliette which holds the letters (sweet counterfeits of passion!), she is indeed a very...
...Vittorio: "Ha! Now you've got to work with me, just the way Togliatti has made De Gasperi work with him! Qui comando io!" In Roviano, wise old Scacchi said to his village priest, Don Mario Sargenti: "Now we must work together-I like all workers of the spade, you like all workers of the robe." This week in both towns another political party seems to be following the Socialists into oblivion. Don Vittorio, the landowners and shopkeepers have all canceled their subscriptions to Rome's Christian Democrat daily, now read only Giannini's neo-Fascist...