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...pair flashed considerable form as they flipped what could have been a pigskin, but on closer inspection turned out to be an emptied fifth, back and forth in short bullet heaves...
Married. Josef Cyrankiewicz, 36, bullet-headed, pro-Communist Polish Premier; and blonde, husky-voiced Nina Andrycz, thirtyish, who made her first big hit in The Constant Nymph and is now Warsaw's top leading lady; he for the second time, she for the first; in Warsaw...
...Bitter Cake. Thus death came to U Aung San, young (33), able leader of the new Burmese nation, and seven fellow Cabinet ministers. Once a Japanese collaborator (like most Burmese leaders), little, bullet-headed Aung San had later helped the British organize a resistance movement among Burmans. He assumed the title Bogyok (General). As head of the A.F.P.F.L. (AntiFascist People's Freedom League), he had risen to power by staging civil servants' strikes, teachers' strikes, police strikes. (Said some British critics, after his death, "Since the A.F.P.F.L. cooked the cake [of violence], no wonder they have...
...hunter's stray bullet forced down Hollywood Hero Jon Hall's private plane, and Hall rose to the occasion. The bullet had just missed him, he told the breathless press. "You'd think the war was still on," he added.* With him, said Hall, was his blues-singing wife, Frances Langford. The publicity was wonderful. Next day it was not so wonderful. Pressed for details, Hall finally confessed that neither he nor his wife had been in the plane at the time. Said he: "I wish this would be forgotten. Too much fuss has been made...
Something for the Boys. While waiting for him to die, and waiting their turn to shout the play-by-play into the hall telephone, souvenir-hunting correspondents helped themselves to everything that was loose. One pried the bullet out of the back of Tojo's chair. A photographer hobbled off with a samurai sword inside his pants leg, but an officer stopped him. "We stood around," Lee recalls, "smoking and talking and making bets on how soon Tojo's small chest would stop heaving." After two hours an Army doctor arrived...