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When in Rome. Among Rome's 26 postwar dailies, most of them shrill, partisan organs, the American is the least opinionated. As guests in Italy's house, its publishers steer clear of politics. Their editorials are not their own, but strings of carefully culled quotes from leading U.S. or British papers...
...roly-poly gals steer clear...
Prize bulls had brought higher prices. But at $35.50 a lb., the 1,200-lb. T. 0. Pride was far & away the costliest meat of all time (previous record for a steer: $11.50 a lb.). Sirloin steak from T. 0. Pride would be worth about...
Last week, 15-year-old Jack Hoffman got a jackpot return for his $260 investment. After T. 0. Pride had first been named junior champion and then grand champion steer at Kansas City's rich, famed American Royal livestock show, Jack Hoffman sold him. The auction price: $42,600 (the Government will get $19,801.80 of this unless Jack is able to deduct a sizeable amount as "operating expenses" and needed improvements on his 80-acre farm...
Like Toscanini, Steinberg never uses a score. Though his performances lack the Maestro's tuning-fork luster, he conducts with much the same bombastic vigor. To give cues, he waggles his head like an angry steer. At opera rehearsals he brays himself hoarse singing the leading roles stopping occasionally to munch a dry slice of pumpernickel...