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Police got close to a ring of identity-card forgers who had set up shop in a bombed factory and printed thousands of false identity cards. The gang escaped, abandoning the presses. The black-printed, buff-colored cards had been sold to aliens and crooks for from...
...Ukraine. Some time ago he discovered Puppet Skoropadsky living on memories, polishing the Order of the Black Eagle which the Kaiser had given him, in a little house on the Wannsee, near Berlin. Skoropadsky thought his violent days were over; he no longer played the Cossack blindman's buff in which the blindfolded man tries to shoot his companions...
...exhibitors had been commercial artists in peacetime. Their show was all eyewitness stuff: fires, explosions, firemen climbing ladders, playing hoses into flame-licked buildings. A. F. S. plans, when Londoners are through looking at their smokeater art, to send it to Manhattan, where Mayor LaGuardia, an old fire buff, has arranged to have it exhibited at the Museum of the City of New York...
Ernest Wolff,* 27-year-old Chicagoan, has been an opera buff ever since he was twelve, and made puppets to accompany his opera records. Once he got a job as waiter, then as chef, in a restaurant near the Met, so that he could spend his spare time there. Back in Chicago, he labored over his puppets, in 1938 gave a public show which was a critical success but a financial flop. In 1939 he was signed up by Gas Exhibits, Inc. at the New York World's Fair, performed his repertory-Carmen, Faust, Rigoletto, Pagliacci...
...buff brick Greek legation on Washington's Massachusetts Avenue was quiet last week; on sunny mornings a Negro yardman hosed down the sidewalks; a white-coated houseman swung open the door to visitors in grand unconcern. Inside, white-haired, friendly little Minister Cimon P. Diamantopoulos gravely stated his pride in his country. Throughout the U. S., in Greek neighborhoods with their fruit stands, vegetable markets, small restaurants and grocery stores, the U. S.'s 700,000 Greeks discussed the news. In the Italian quarters - it was the 18th anniversary of Mussolini's march on Rome-fruit peddlers...