Word: italo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...BARON IN THE TREES (217 pp.)-Italo Calvino-Random House...
...climb a tree-every child knows that. Seen from a stout limb and framed in shade, the world seems a safer and more interesting place. But sooner or later the child must come down to earth. In this novel, the hero never comes down, and neither does Italian Author Italo Calvino. He seems to have had great fun dreaming up his fantasy; all he asks of the reader is a suspended intelligence and a taste for the bizarre...
Trouble was that the barbers and bakers were fair game for tipsters and touters. When rumors went around that the Italo-Suisse company planned to build a pipeline from Genoa to Switzerland, its shares zipped from $138 to $229 in a few days. Last week they worried off to $176. Last fortnight the most aggressive tipster service. I.F.A.S.. rode up the stock of Motor Colombus by 10% in a single day simply by reporting-with no fact or explanation-that it would jump sensationally. Last week the stock lost half its 10% gain, and at least one other hard...
...should advise the directors of the Metropolitan, said Tenor Italo Campanini, "to tear out the inside of their building and rebuild...
...Democrat, who went to Yale (1933) and was graduated from Yale Law School, nevertheless underlines his kinship with the Italo-American, whose estimated 300,000 votes represent an attractive plum in a state where 30,000 pluralities are common. A former U.S. Representative, he served as State Treasurer for two and a half years under Governor Paul Dever, whose sopping brow inundated the nation's TV sets during his keynote speech four years ago at the Democratic National Convention. Furcolo, who has been criticized as "Dever's man" for his fair-haired position in the last Democratic Administration, lost...