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Deadline-U.S.A. (20th Century-Fox) casts Humphrey Bogart as the crusading managing editor of a big-city daily whose actions are worthy of the most intrepid Hollywood hero. Bogart 1) tangles with an underworld vice czar, 2) roughs up a witness in a murder case involving the mink-clad body of the standard beautiful blonde, 3) wins a reprieve for his foundering, 47-year-old newspaper, the Day,* 4) wins back his divorced wife (Kim Hunter), 5) calls his publisher's old widow (Ethel Barrymore) "Baby...
Where lie the farthest limits of northern Asia? Peter the Great did not know, and he wanted to. So, in 1725, Czar Peter sent a Dane named Vitus Bering and 33 men to poke around in Kamchatka, and especially to find out whether a land bridge connected Asia and North America. Bering proved the continents separate by sailing through the straits between them, but Peter's successor, the Empress Anne, was not altogether convinced...
Died. Brownlee Owen Currey, 51, investment banker and president of Equitable Securities Corp.; of anemia; in Nashville, Tenn. Starting as a bank clerk while a Vanderbilt undergraduate, Currey wound up as a transit king (American Express Co.), publisher (Southern Agriculturist, Farm and Ranch), city bus-system czar (in Akron, Nashville, Richmond...
Schacht, as Germany's economic czar from 1933 to 1939, provided the money and raw materials for the Nazis' war machine. But when Hitler crashed, Schacht stood in the war criminals' dock at Nürnberg and vowed: "I would have killed Hitler personally if given the chance." Commented Von Ribbentrop, no lily himself: "He sold himself to many people before, now he is selling himself to the Allies also...
Born in Russia, where his grandfather had been a bandmaster to Czar Nicholas I, Efrem, along with an older brother, Arved, escaped to Riga, after the Bolshevik Revolution. Edmund soon joined them. All three brothers finished their musical training in Berlin, then went separate ways. Efrem got his big chance to conduct with the Berlin Philharmonic in 1921; Edmund made his concert debut in Rome in 1924. After nine years in Stuttgart, and another nine conducting the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo orchestra on international tours, Efrem settled down in the U.S., built up the Kansas City Philharmonic for five...