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...dramatic message from Washington that the U.S. had given up its share of Italian warships, awarded to the U.S. under the peace treaty. The Communists, seeing that De Gasperi was safe for the time being, withdrew their own no-confidence motion. The left's obvious strategy: to pin Italy's economic troubles on the Government as an excuse for further strikes and strife. Cried Nenni to De Gasperi: "You'll be sorry . . . perhaps within a few months ... or weeks...
Tallulah Banlchead, the theater's pin wheel from Alabama, was "resting comfortably" with neuritis at a Chicago hospital; Private Lives closed down for a fortnight...
...Police department. Regarded as the top amateur wrestler in the country, Wittenberg has not been beaten since he left CCNY 12 years ago. Fuller lost a 12 to 6 decision to him in New York last spring in one of the only bouts last year where Wittenberg failed to pin his opponent. As yet Wittenberg has not announced whether he plans to enter the unlimited or 191-pound classes although his weight now stands over 200. According to tentative Olympic plans, the New England regional tryouts will be held at Harvard late this winter, which will facilitate the chances...
That was about all that newsmen could pin down last week when John Deferrari, now a bony, brisk bachelor of 84, gave an amazed Boston Public Library more than $1,000,000 to set up a trust fund. For the presentation, he showed up in an uncomfortably new grey suit, the side pockets of which were fastened with safety pins as a protection against pickpockets. The library's board gratefully accepted his gift and agreed to his stipulation that income from the fund be used to build a John Deferrari wing containing his portrait...
...confessed that he rang the bell as a signal for his gang's nightly "operations"-burglary, smashing windows, bombing. Father Swartsfager ordered him to summon his gang. When the boys showed up, one by one, he started preaching. He called them cowards and coyotes, threatened to pin their ears back. The boys listened aghast. Soon, they were confessing their crimes. They led him to their hideout, turned over lead pipes, brass knuckles, revolvers. On the spot, Father Swartsfager organized the Gremlin Club ("I'll teach you to be real tough guys-mentally, physically and spiritually...