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...week's end the British had cleared about a third of Athens. But from Epirus in the northwest came a sudden yelp of alarm. General Napoleon Zervas, barrel-chested commander of the pro-Government EDES guerrillas, protested that ELAS forces had overrun eight villages in his territory. Next day he abandoned his headquarters at Ioannina...
That was what the amorphous União was apparently waiting for. It let the world know that it was watching for an old dodge: a sudden, fascist-style election sprung on the unprepared Brazilian people by the Dictator. It also let the world know that it had a presidential candidate in mind: popular Air General Eduardo Gomes, who was considered democratic-minded but had enough influence with the military to make his election stick...
...Sidney and the overseer are obviously sinister from the start; little by little the aunt & uncle begin to seem queer to her too. In the most promising stretch of the picture, as she flinches in terror of groaning shutters and sudden extinctions of the lights, or follows the beckoning of inchoate voices into the swamp, it is as impossible for the audience as for the victim to know what is plain fact, what is the hallucination of a crumbling mind, who if anybody is to be trusted...
...Boss Krug warned the U.S. that this would not mean expansion of the spot plan. There is no hope for that until the military's sudden demands for increased materiel, such as heavy artillery and small-arms ammunition, are met. He has refused demands of the armed services to ban the manufacture of civilian goods in areas where manpower shortages are greatest. Instead, WPB issued a new ruling this week which permits civilian goods to be made only if "war production is on schedule, is kept on schedule and is able to meet the demands of increased schedules...
...storm center of Johnson's popularity seems to reside so firmly among girls below the age of consent that he is sometimes described as the voiceless Sinatra. Johnson's attitude towards this sudden, enormous popularity is rather baffled ("I can't pick my nose in public any more"). Equally, it is frank and heartfelt: "God," he says, "I hope it lasts." He understands his fans all the more sympathetically because he is still a celebrity hound himself. To meet Ronald Colman is still a breath-taking event...