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...wife (sugary, upper-class Anna Lee). Then she parades before the count in his dead wife's wedding dress. At length, on a shooting party (the film is made from Chekhov's story The Shooting Party), she is mysteriously knifed to death. Her husband takes the rap. The Bolshevik revolution overtakes her guilty lover before justice does...
...shillelagh rap from little Eire (pop. 3,000,000) gave the U.S. one more foreign-policy headache last week. To President Roosevelt's polite request that neutral Eire kick its German and Japanese diplomats out of their grandstand seats for the invasion, President Eamon de Valera returned a flat "No" (see p. 36). Would the U.S. now get tough as it had with neutral Spain, and join Britain in economic sanctions? Or would the President and the State Department, unable to prove a single case of Axis espionage in Eire, be content with having put themselves on record...
Wrote Lyons: "Canadian officials aren't trying to reform their economic system. They are just keeping prices down." Key industrialists run price control: "The Government always has a businessman to take the rap when his industry howls . . . and the Government is tough to business. Their excess-profits...
...beat da rap." As the Marines expanded to war strength, Lou Diamond was the ideal liaison between crusty old-timers and impressionable recruits. He taught quick action by threats of .yardbird detail and the rough side of a corrugated tongue. His men swore by Lou, remembered the time he dared a colonel to court-martial him for filching extra food for his men. "I'll beat da rap," said he, "I did it for da boys...
...Poland's prewar territory restored. But Soviet Russia was not prepared to give back the disputed Polish lands. Perhaps the Poles were again to learn an old and wretched lesson: that in the larger interests between great powers, the smaller nations usually have to take the rap...