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...thirteenth printing, "General Education In A Free Society" achieves first honors as the 1946 best seller of the Harvard University Press. Concluding a year beset by paper shortages and printing difficulties, the Press nevertheless published 46 volumes, ranging from the esoteric "Spina Bifida and Cranium Bifidum" and "Tables of the Hankel Functions of Order One-Third and of Their Derivatives" to the more popular "Boston After Bulfinch" and "Serge Koussevitzky...
Nothing Smelly. At Frank Spina's barbershop Harry Truman got his usual trim, reminded his old barber: "None of that fancy stuff. I don't want anything that smells." He got plain water. Over at the Federal Building he saw more old friends and held a brief press conference. Of the Supreme Court vacancy he told reporters: "The hardest thing in the world is to find a good man when you want one." After lunch he went home to Independence and slept all afternoon...
...Countess Uva Spina's the talk was about how the Americans in Roman society had somehow managed to survive the war and the Nazi occupation right in Rome. Even Signora Pallavicini-Margaret Roosevelt that...
...story is simple. In a village in the Abruzzi at the time of the war on Ethiopia, a brave old woman hides her sick anti-Fascist grandson, Pietro Spina, from the police. Recovered, he leaves her, joins his friends in another hideout. An informer forces them to move on. They do a little underground work. Pietro (he was also the hero of Bread and Wine, TIME, April 5, 1937) begins a romance, runs afoul of the authorities as the book ends...
Silone's World of God will impartially repel Leftists, Centrists and Rightists. Its chief representative in this book, Pietro Spina, is no party man. He is a kind of religious anarchist. He thinks too well of the poor as they are, and too ill of the rest of the world, to be much interested in reducing poverty. He is Novelist Silone's embodiment of the best that a man of heart and mind can be in this century...