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...market day in Zagreb's sun-washed Yelachich Square townspeople used to haggle with bright-costumed peasants who had spread out their wares. From sidewalk cafés men would banter with the pretty peasant girls. One day last week the shadow of hated Major Helm, Gestapo chief for the puppet state of Croatia, swaggered in the sun across the Square. Somewhere a rifle's muzzle nosed from a window. A shot clapped. Gestapo Chief Helm flopped down on his shadow, dead. Enraged and terrified, his bodyguard swung their pistols on the crowd, hurled hand grenades among...
...time, Mr. Diakandru evicted Mr. Petropulos. All afternoon they trudged heavily across the street, toting pots & pans, stoves, stools, counters, ice cream, beer bottles. Suddenly a lawyer appeared with a new court order: the evictions were all off; the rivals must move right back into their own caf...
...generous to assume that the Nazis were using a substitute for Best, but his voice was identified by fellow correspondents who heard him broadcast. William L. Shirer, who knew Best in Vienna, thought the soft café life had changed him. "Best, like few other American foreign correspondents, stayed too long in Europe. Unless you came home sometimes you began to go European. Best never came home, even for a brief vacation." TIME merely said that Best was a South Carolinian. Said he in his biography written for the internees' paper at Bad Nauheim Spa: "Born Sumter, S.C., 4/16...
...majority and with it some $3,900,000 came Brenda Diana Duff Frazier Kelly, onetime queen of the Manhattan glamor debs, now queen of a triplex apartment with Husband John ("Shipwreck") Kelly. Last week at least two of the newspapers that used to publicize all her doings in café society published the fact that her chief interest now, besides keeping house, is "having a family...
...last fortnight was Radio Actress Ilka Chase's Past Imperfect. Word had gone forth that this hodgepodge personal history is as broad as it is high, and generously peppered with peephole patter about everybody from the late William Alexander Percy (Lanterns on the Levee) to café society's Lady Mendl and Hollywood's George Cukor...