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...would have to do a great deal more before it could contain the triumphal march of Italian Communism. The U.S. would also have to learn more about the nature of its Communist antagonists, who in Italy used different methods from the frank totalitarianism of their eastern European comrades. The success of the methods is reflected in a dispatch from TIME Correspondent Emmet Hughes, after a trip through northern Italy, whose glorious cities have become the Communists' fiercest strongholds. His report...
...painter to portray him standing in St. Peter's. Later Pannini painted Charles III of Spain in the same setting. Sometimes, even after his reputation was assured, the artist would not refuse to turn an honest penny by decorating a villa, or whipping up cardboard clouds, fountains and triumphal arches for a sumptuous private fete. But apart from these somewhat theatrical preoccupations, most of Pannini's 74 years were spent among the monuments of a greater age, which he sometimes peopled incongruously with tiny, ineffectual figures dressed in the gay fashions of his own time...
...Toro, the bewildered victim, is nominally "owned" by a lewd fat man, Vince Vanneman, who fixes every one of his fights on a coast-to-coast tour that Eddie promotes into a triumphal march. Nick, the powerful and deadly racketeer who actually owns El Toro as he owns Eddie, also owns the aging heavyweight champion, Gus Lennert. Gus is soon to retire, after drawing one big purse for getting massacred by the challenger, Buddy Stein, and another for doing a nose dive before El Toro. Nick has all the elements nicely calculated except his wife, Ruby, a ladylike tramp...
Surely the world did. And without a doubt, the triumphal tour of Argentina's beryllium-bright First Lady to the musty corners of the Old World had its miraculous aspects. For sleek, 28-year-old Doña María Eva Duarte de Perón was no ordinary tourist. There was scarcely a capital where her iridescent progress had not been reported inch by inch, scarcely a newspaper from the Times of London to New York's Daily Worker which did not wonder out loud over the significance of the trip...
...auspices of the Morris Gray Poetry Fund, Eliot introduced as "the first poet of our time," read representative selections from all of his periods. In addition to such standbys as "The Waste Land" and "The Hollow Men," he read his five "Landscapes" and gave a particularly dramatic interpretation of "Triumphal March...