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...days before, President Klement Gottwald, speaking to the Communist Party Central Committee, had charged that the party had been riddled with plotters for five years. In addition to Clementis, he named Marie Svermova, onetime second deputy secretary-general of the Czech party, and Otto Sling, former party political secretary for the Brno region...
...show how Huppenkothen made a farce out of a legal proceeding, the prosecution produced a surprise witness, Otto Thornbeck, who presided at Canaris' trial, and since the war has been conducting a quiet, respectable law practice in Nüirnberg. Said Thornbeck: "I submitted to the law in force at that time." He testified that under Huppenkothen's direction, conspiracy trials took three hours. Defendants were allowed no lawyers, got no bill of charges. Instead, Huppenkothen shouted the accusation at them, permitted a brief answer period. Then the death sentence was imposed, and next day the prisoners were...
...Otto Preminger directed "The Moon is Blue," and his efforts, if he made any, are without manifestation. Stewart Chaney's two sets are bright and cheerful, which the play is not. Probably the happiest person connected with "The Moon is Blue" is Barry Nelson. He got married on Monday...
Pulitzer Prize Playhouse (Fri. 9 p.m., ABC). Susan Glaspell's Alison's House, with Otto Kruger and Madge Evans...
...clear, moonless night, far from any city glare, a keen-eyed observer can see in the sky a faintly glowing cone. This is the "zodiacal light," which astronomers believe is sunlight reflected from dust particles revolving around the sun like microscopic planets. In Sky and Telescope, Astronomer Otto Struve of the University of California tells how he thinks the dust got there...