Word: antone
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Permanent Fight." From Stockholm came the details of a weird Nazi plan to save Naziism after the war is lost. Count Anton von Knyphausen, for years a German correspondent in Helsinki, said that he had decided to quit the Nazi cause, would gladly tell the Allied world what he knew...
...this came about because of one Anton Jankowski, a Herculean (6 ft. 2 in., 250 lb.) employe of Muskegon's (Mich.) Norge Division of Borg-Warner (plane parts, vacuum pumps, valves). Last November, the War Department ordered Norge to cut back production of gun mounts. This reduced the piecework earnings of its employes. The U.A.W.A.F. of L. promptly protested, but agreed to go along if the company would clamp down on Jankowski. The union had al ready expelled Jankowski for nonpayment of dues. Now the union claimed that his great strength enabled him to work too fast. Thereby...
...Gregory Anton (Charles Boyer) is so subtle with his -trustful bride (Ingrid Bergman), his motives are so far beyond anything she could imagine, that she falls an easy victim. Husband Anton has a genius for suggestive psychology. Stage by stage his wife loses her trust in her sanity. When she cannot find a brooch he gave her, it never occurs to her that he may have "lost" it for her. When she cannot recall some trifling matter, it never occurs to her that it may never have happened. When she remembers a certain letter which would give her husband...
Every night, after Anton goes out, the gaslights dim as if gas were being turned on somewhere else in the house. Shuddering in her bedroom, his wife hears noises in the boarded-up attic. But she half-believes that these must be personal delusions until, in the nick of time, a suspicious (and eligible) Scotland Yardsman (Joseph Cotten) makes clear to her that ophidian Mr. Anton has good reasons, murderous and avaricious, to ripen his wife for the madhouse...
...late Edward MacDowell and a pupil of the late Henry Hadley, Barrymore took up the piano at the age of 17. In his Hollywood home he has one of the most magnificent record collections in the movie colony. His favorite composers are Beethoven, Brahms, Schumann, Wagner, Debussy, Ravel and Anton Bruckner. He is a not-too-expert performer on the oboe. About In Memoriam last week he was characteristically unassuming: "If the great masters were listening . . . I'm sure they'd be gentlemen enough to consider the intent of my music rather than the execution...