Word: writes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Smoke Rings. One look at her and the young mayor was smitten with a disease compounded of love and a paralyzing bashfulness. Before this gentle girl, who could both read and write, the dashing romantic was unable to speak a word. Desperate, he raced off to the town of Reggio Calabria to ask the advice of some more experienced guappi. "Appeal to her feminine curiosity," they suggested, and told him a few tricks of the trade. After that, Pietro, in the company of two friends, took up a stand opposite Francesca's door, puffing cigarettes in an urbane manner...
...nephew of the local archpriest, could not afford those three cigarettes a day. And in the end it proved in vain. Francesca passed by all the smoke rings with a preoccupied eye. Pietro raced off once again to Reggio and bought himself a book on how to write love letters. Francesca left his best efforts unanswered...
...through the library's long corridors, discoursed on its treasures and memories, exuded a candidate's charm, his speech colloquial and homely, his accent as broad as the Missouri River, his smile glowing and real. Excerpts: ¶ On how to recommend laws: "Well, sir, you write 'em down in a message, you try to think things out and see what'd be best for the country, then you make a message on it and send it down to the Congress, and they act on it or they don't, as they please." ¶"That...
Fattened Ratings. Scheuer, a tall, balding man who never worked for a newspaper until he got his idea, does not write with the authority of New York Times Critic Jack Gould or the readability of the New York Herald Tribune's syndicated (90 papers) John Crosby. But in terms of his effect on which way the dial turns, he is the nation's most influential TV critic. Last week the Tulsa Tribune became the 96th newspaper (total circ. 15 million) to take his TV Key. Among other subscribers: the Chicago Tribune, Philadelphia Bulletin, Baltimore Sun, Los Angeles Herald...
Finally a word of appreciation for the unskimping, 64-page program booklet for the Festival. Whoever planned it, besides listing the works of art, the programs and casts and other information, went out of the way to get specialists to write helpful auxiliary essays on the various evening events. This is representative of the tremendous thought, care and effort that have gone into the planning and realization of the whole Boston Arts Festival