Word: alberts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Best shot in this disturbing but laugh-loaded short (18 min.) film: Harvard's famed Earnest Albert Hooton gloomily winding up a deadpan lecture to an anthropology class: "Mechanized and moronic man moves toward extinction. . . . Any questions...
...original documents, and the oral testimony of 200 witnesses, the Nürnberg war crimes trial drew to an end. The courtroom was almost gay. French Associate Judge Robert Falco drew funny pictures which he passed from the bench down to his wife. In the dock, Builder Albert Speer was playing a game: he drew sketch after sketch of a new house for Banker Hjalmar Schacht (who rejected each version because the bathrooms were in the wrong place...
...turns out, the Swede (screen newcomer Burt Lancaster) was a natural born fall guy. By the time such seasoned misbehaviorists as Albert Dekker and Ava Gardner are through with him, the double-and triple-crossings get so thick that his death seems about the only simple thing in his career...
...Whistling. World War II gave him his chance. In April, 1942, amid the wreckage of the blitz, he conducted the London Philharmonic to a full house in Royal Albert Hall, to raise funds for Britain's colored allies...
Died. The Marquis Jules Philippe Felix Albert de Dion, 90, former "kingpin dude" of Parisian society who forsook boulevard gaieties in the '90s to become a pioneer automobile manufacturer, founder of the famed Automobile Club of France; in Paris...