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...troops massed near her frontiers (300,000 Italians were reported concentrated north of Fiume). Police uncovered an arsenal in a German cardboard factory. An Italian-Yugoslav commission investigated the death of one Italian soldier and the wounding of three others when Italian troops tried to disarm a Yugoslav sergeant on Yugoslav soil. The Italians said they thought the sergeant was in Italy...
...latest reports Sweden's Hitler, Sven Lindholm, was going about his regular business as a sergeant in the Army. A sporty-looking character who somewhat resembles an intelligent football player, he makes no secret of the fact that he considers himself the personal representative of Göring in Sweden. More than once he has stood for an hour straight-arming before the Stockholm statue of the great Gustavus Adolf us (who overran Germany in 1630-32) while comrades paraded behind him. Once he was asked at a public meeting what he would do if Germany invaded. "I will...
Dramatically Producer Lasky hopped in a plane, took off for Nashville. Down to Nashville to meet him next day went Sergeant York. With him was his legal battery, canny Country Lawyer John Hale. Lawyer Hale had rocked Producer Lasky at the first of their three conferences by rejecting his clause-ridden Hollywood contract hands down. Drawled Hale: "What we want is a plain old Tennessee contract that simply says what you shall do and what the Sergeant shall...
While Tennessee's Governor Prentice Cooper shot big-gun advice from behind the lines and Lasky and the lawyer pow-wowed, Sergeant York just talked. He talked about not liking to leave his post as head of a CCC camp (soon to close), about maybe running for Congress (he can't under the Hatch Act). He wasn't sure he was going to Hollywood. He wasn't even sure yet, he said, that the Lasky deal was a deal.* But one thing the Sergeant was sure of-what The Life of Sergeant York would be like...
...Practically everybody else was. Reports had it that Lasky was offering $25,000 to the Sergeant, who was holding out, not too grimly...