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...Solomon West Ridgway Dias Bandaranaike, who governed from 1956 until his assassination last September. In last week's election, the United Nationalists leaped from eight to 50 seats. But the Freedom Party, without a leader of stature, worked up so much sympathy by parading Bandaranaike's weeping widow that it finished with 46 seats...
From all over the countryside they descended on Peking last week-swarms of muscular women in tight pigtails, laborers' boots and identical blue boiler suits. The glorious revolution, said Madame Soong Ching-ling, U.S.-educated* widow of Sun Yat-sen and now People's Vice Chairman, had brought about a great change in Chinese "esthetic views . . . The fragile, slender and sentimental girls, whom the exploiting classes regarded as pretty, are ugly and degenerate to the working people." Banners flaunted high, red-and-gold streamers clutched in their hands, the emancipated women of Red China cried back their full...
Died. Betty Hicks Lanza, 37, widow of Tenor Mario Lanza, who died of a heart attack at 38 last October; of unknown cause (autopsy pending); in Beverly Hills...
Brilliant Bully. By this editorial principle, Harris raised News circulation from 7,000 to 70,000. He gained social standing of a sort by marrying a wealthy widow, whom he made poorer but no happier. He stood for Parliament as a Conservative but ruined his chances by making a speech on the merits of mistresses for M.P.s. By borrowing right and left, Harris managed to buy a literary weekly, the Saturday Review, tossed out its old staff, and before long had a roster of contributors including Shaw, H. G. Wells, Thomas Hardy, Rudyard Kipling...
...Journey to the Center of the Earth. Prissy Professor James Mason, followed by Plucky Youth Pat Boone, Beautiful Widow Arlene Dahl, and a noble-souled duck named Gertrude, spends a year exploring some of the most preposterous yet wonderfully funny poppycock Jules Verne ever published...