Word: except
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Fiumicino would probably be disastrous. Instead, Tamburella chose Terracina, a highly photogenic, centuries-old fishing village south of Rome. Having received TIME'S permission to use the story, he put his writers to work on the script. When shooting began last October, Tamburella used native Terracinans for all except the lead roles. One member of the cast, new to all moviegoers, is Patrizia Mangano (see cut), the heroine, who Tamburella thinks is headed for stardom...
When Potter Palmer built his house on Chicago's Lake Shore Drive in 1882, it had all the appurtenances of a princely European castle except the princes. The redoubtable Mrs. Potter Palmer took care of that. She chartered a yacht, set off for Moscow for the coronation of Czar Nicholas II, and returned triumphantly with a swatch of Russian princelings and princesses to waltz in her velvet-lined ballroom...
...Hendon's Tories will be as conservative as their candidate. There will be only 19 meetings, and Lucas-Tooth will not bother to attend all of them. There will be no street-corner meetings ("Not here, y'know," Cockshut shudders), and there will be no loudspeaker cars, except on the actual day of the election ("Don't approve of that sort of thing," says Cockshut aggressively). "Our only slogan," added Dr. Cockshut, "is 'Lucas-Tooth.' That will appear on 15,000 stickers...
Father Dunne pointed out that if a Catholic feels that the teachings of the Church are not those of Divine Authority he is free to disagree, whereupon he automatically leaves the Church. "There is no coercion at all except a coercion of conscience...
Provost Buck was introduced, and in turn introduced Mrs. Roosevelt. As the began to speak the audience grew silent. Those in the rear leaned forward to hear every world. All was quiet except for the gentle rising and falling of her voice. Then came a tapping. It repeated. And another tapping. Everyone must have been conscious of it. A few shifted in their seats and looked around. But it took a moment for the realization to spread that the tappings were coming from those left outside, knocking hopefully on one of the exit-doors at the rear of the balcony...