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Soon a Polish army craft was on the fugitive's tail. By zigzagging through a cloud bank over the Baltic, the four managed to elude it, despite their slow speed (75 m.p.h.). They navigated by compass, without...
...stages bare, cut down on all warlike gear save for a few essential spears. Siegfried's funeral pyre was left to the imagination. In Götterdämmerung, nobody got to see Valhalla burn: there was only a red glow in the sky, no sign of a cloud-borne castle...
This would be annoying enough to Harry Truman. But what fixed the fascinated gaze of political observers was a cloud on the political horizon no bigger than the hand of little Jacob Arvey, Illinois Democratic boss. Appearing on a TV program with Douglas, Arvey dutifully stated that the Illinois delegation at the National Convention would support Mr. Truman if he chose to run. If not, said Arvey, "there are a great many people who . . . look on Senator Douglas as a presidential candidate." When Douglas once more disavowed any such ambitions, Arvey mentioned his liking for Ike Eisenhower, whom Arvey backed...
Last week only one dark cloud, as yet no bigger than a man's hand, hovered on the horizon of Yugoslavia-Canada relations. Tito has notified Ottawa that one Radan Radican Grujicic is a refugee in Canada and should be sent back to his homeland to stand trial for 1,000 political murders. Grujicic, according to Belgrade, was chief of Hitler's Gestapo in Serbia. In 1948 he entered Canada as a D.P. Until recently Grujicic lived in a Toronto rooming house; his present whereabouts are unknown, except perhaps to the R.C.M.P...
This time the glamorous lady in distress is not Ingrid Bergman but Marta Toren, playing the disenchanted mistress of an idealistic French colonel (Lee J. Cobb), and the scene is Damascus in 1925 under the cloud of bitter French-Syrian warfare. Gun-Runner Bogart runs afoul of Colonel Cobb in both love & war, while a murky gallery of black marketeers, informers and Arabian fanatics (Zero Mostel, Nick Dennis, Onslow Stevens, et al.) snuffles ominously through the background...