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Finally General Michael Andonopoulos, commanding the 8th Mountain Division, sent a detachment up to Konitsa by a mule track. This force, pushing through a thin screen of snipers, got into the town across an old Turkish bridge. Thus Konitsa was reinforced by 2,000 men. Ebullient government communiqués claimed that the "routed" rebels were fleeing north into Albania and east into their Gramos Mountain stronghold. But next day the rebels attacked Konitsa again. At week's end, they attacked Philiates, near the coast opposite Corfu, 45 miles from Konitsa. Government officers, somewhat apologetically, explained that the stubborn...
...Comes Out Here. Hogan developed a simplified system: for the transmitter, a photoelectric scanner that "read" copy from a revolving cylinder; for the receiver, an electrolytic printer that left a thin metal deposit on damp paper (it came out dry). The paper cost a dollar for a 400-ft. roll, enough to last a subscriber for a month...
Smoke bombs were dropped by one of the trio described as "a lean thin fellow," while another "pock-marked chap" took command of the cashiers' cage...
Much of The Senator's impudence toward politicians and politicking would probably seem rather thin on the stage, or in print. But it is so rare to see any national institution really slapped around, on the screen, that the picture seems not only very funny but very audacious...
...Castile (20th Century-Fox] is a big, bright-colored packaging of Samuel Shellabarger's best-selling historical novel about the era of Cortes. Tyrone Power keeps a medium-tight rein on his passionate Spanish nature; Lee J. Cobb is a boozer who likes disguises; Cesar Romero-a rather thin Stout Cortes-wears a rich black beard. Newcomer Jean Peters plays a pretty, vacuous runaway barmaid who is described, enthusiastically, as "a wench for the New World." Thomas Gomez, in priestly robes, puts forward a few ill-chosen words in favor of the conquest of Mexico (something a few centuries...