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...many Italian bank clerks, the first order of daily business is to roam the streets trying to scrounge coins from train stations and stores in return for bills; some banks are issuing 500-lire cashier's checks that pass from pocket to pocket as legal tender. Several big department stores offer scrip instead of change, and grocers often make change in the form of potatoes or pieces of chocolate. Milan's San Siro race track pays off in scrip-good only at the track-and customers at Sorrento's Fauno Bar have been reduced to writing checks...
...film boasts a CORE sampling of injustices that supposedly explain the color-conscious hero's heavy drinking and bad temper. Seldom is there any doubt that what makes Adam run is Sammy. Carpentered into the story line are all the predictable solo turns-a crying jag, a tender love episode, a scene in which he wields a broken bottle to make his agent grovel, and a reprise in which Davis crawls across a restaurant floor to shine Lawford's shoes. There is a semifinal glimpse of the doomed genius staggering through city streets, climaxed by a moment...
...What a tender and perceptive look at middle age! Still, the idea that youth is at a disadvantage because of what it lacks in experience is a sour grape most of us in the latter group will not willingly swallow. Let us look for the compensations of our stage in life without tearing up the memories of the days when we too were young and blissfully ignorant...
...York Post who inherited a real estate fortune and has served as a political adviser to Averell Harriman, elucidates the psychology of power in an intelligent tale about a character admittedly modeled on the late James Forrestal. All the Little Heroes (Bobbs-Merrill) by Herbert Wilner, 40, describes with tender humor and felicity how in the last ten days of his life a dying man learns how to live. This Blessed Shore (Shorecrest) by Thomas B. Morgan, 39, recounts with rage and considerable skill how another dying man (the author's father) suffered terminal agonies that in Morgan...
...permission to marry. It was widely surmised in print that the President, in an unusually dour mood, had vetoed their request. The situation evoked memories of Ulysses S. Grant, who brooded for 18 months before al lowing the dashing Algernon Sartoris to marry his Nellie, who was a tender 18 by the time she reached the altar...