Word: townes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Just across the French border, in the alpine resort town of Pralognian, two old enemies (and older friends) faced each other affably. They were Italy's two best-known Socialists, but men of radically different views. One was wrinkled, leathery Pietro Nenni, 65, Stalin Prizewinner, whose "unity of action" pact with the Italian Communists provides Moscow with 35% of the Italian vote...
Young Don Carlo, third Prince of Venosa, eighth Count of Consa, 15th Lord of Gesualdo, etc., etc., was content with the carefree luxury that befell his lot as a second son. He rarely went home to his small and dull town of Venosa, instead lived in nearby Naples, gathered the finest Renaissance musicians and poets around him, and himself became famed as a lutanist and singer. Of an evening, he would put to sea with one of his poet friends, and spend the night improvising songs and madrigals. He might have sung away his whole life, but his elder brother...
...movie namesake, Ninotchka, she was fascinated by bourgeois hats. The cut-rate merchandise at C. & A. Modes, Ltd. seemed just what she wanted: among the 305. felt flowerpots, the cheap berets, the fluffy wool stocking caps there must be a creation that would be the envy of her home-town friends in Sverdlovsk (pop. 550,000) on the eastern slopes of the Urals...
...story told by Novelist Lucy Daniels concerns the large, respectable and reasonably happy family of a Negro chauffeur in a Southern town. To them, the Supreme Court's decision comes hard. The father, a nonentity in his white boss's house but a patriarch in his own, is simply distressed by the news: "I don' know . . . But I cain't see Saul goin' to school wid white kids ... I cain't see me sittin' side o' Mistah Charles on the bus neitha . . I think they's plenty mo' feel...
...Always Darkest. In Catlettsburg, Ky., Police Chief Ray Castle came to work, found a note from the lobster shift: "Ray, the radio in the police car won't work. The lights in the men's restroom are out. Sewer on 34th St. stopped up. The town clock is 7 minutes slow, and payday is past due 10 days...