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...Bavarian forests near Munich, Producer-Director John Sturges has rebuilt Stalag 3, and his Great Escape shows promise of being the best P.O.W. picture since Stalag 17-closely following the bestselling personal-experience story written by Paul Brickhill. Underground, Tom, Dick and Harry are ingenious; they are rigged up with improvised cable cars, electric lights and pumping stations. But above ground the prison camp has an authenticity that is frightening, and visitors instinctively flinch under the guard towers high above masses of barbed wire...
...Munich's student quarter, meanwhile, a Jerry stock market has been set up. Young German brokers buy and sell the chits that students receive when they are hired as extras. Each slip of paper entitles its bearer to work for one day for $7.50-or simply to collect $1.25 if it rains and shooting is called off. When the weather reports are favorable, chits are traded for as much as $2.50. Inclement offings will send the asking price plummeting as low as 50?. Of course the brokers take 10%, rain or shine...
...council discussion. Chairman of the secretariat is moderate Amleto Cardinal Cicognani, the Vatican Secretary of State and longtime 1933-58) apostolic delegate to the U.S. But also on the secretariat are such moderates and liberals as Chicago's Albert Meyer, Milan's Giovanni Montini, Julius Dopfner of Munich, Leo Jozef Suenens of Malines-Bruxelles...
...Madame," says the general to his wife, "will you please not forget my pajamas." No Dish Twice. But France's President will have very little time for sleep in the course of a strenuous six-day visit to West Germany this week. From Hamburg in the north to Munich in the south, the Germans-at De Gaulle's request-have laid on a man-killing marathon of speeches, parades, banquets and wreath layings to honor the first official visit of a French head of state to modern Germany. Nervous German chefs on his route have all compared menus...
...American Express. After its opening at the Milwaukee Art Center on Sept. 21, the show will make a second debut in Vienna in January. The proposed itinerary from then on reads like something out of an American Express folder: Belgrade, Athens, Rome, Monaco, Berlin, Stockholm, Brussels, London, Dublin, Paris, Munich. Overseas booking agent for the show will be the U.S. Information Agency,* chosen because some European museums insist on operating exclusively on the government level...