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What Retirement does best is five attractive characterizations by its principals, with an assist from housemaid Evelyn Keyes. A holdover from the Broadway cast, elegant Isobel Elsom is a handsome ornament to the grisly drama. The others are less handsome, but just as effective-especially taut, slight, eruptive Ida Lupino, who deftly manipulates her neurotic nuances as if her nephew (Mr. Hay ward) were not her real-life husband...
Japan was taut last week with its longstanding Army-Navy tug of war and peace...
...blacked-out street in suburban Puteaux a steel cable, taut from curb to curb, overturned a car full of Nazi soldiers, injuring several. While Parisians waited tensely for Schaumburg to make good his threat, in Vichy Marshal Petain's Minister of the Interior Pierre Pucheu lashed out furiously at the underground Communist Party in both zones of France. Warned he: "[We] will not permit a political group that was most bellicose before the war, but defeatist throughout the war, now to wrap itself in the Tricolor and provoke incidents between the people and occupation troops on the pretext...
...back, my head was jerked back and water was poured into my nostrils. . . . Next they strapped me into the 'tiger's chair'-an ordinary chair anchored to the floor. Bricks were placed under my feet and piled up one by one. As each brick stretched my taut leg muscles farther, the agony became unbearable. I fainted seven times within 40 minutes. . . . They gave me what they called the 'electric punishment.' I was forced to grasp two electrally charged tubes and the voltage was gradually stepped up. Every inch ofm y body trembled like jelly...
...fourth year of war rolled to a close on July 7, it found Japan this week still fighting, still strong-but taut, unhappy, sour. Much changed is war-weary Japan. Rice is rationed. Meatless days are a patriotic duty-only blubbery whale meat is on the free list. The production of warming sake (rice wine) is discouraged. Sugar has been replaced by long-forbidden saccharin in many commercial foods. Bitterest of all to the nervous, twitching Japanese is the shortage of cigarets...