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Both Charlie Chaplin and U. S. Ambassador Joseph C. Grew were once marked for Japanese assassin's bullets, in an attempt to get the United States to declare war, it was revealed by Grew in a feature article in the current issue of the Harvard Alumni Bulletin discussing the Nipponese tradition of political murder...
Shot on July 2, 1881, Garfield died 78 days later, because his doctors, headed by his boyhood friend, Dr. D. W. Bliss, could not locate the assassin's bullet in his abdomen. By using an electromagnet, Telephonist Alexander Graham Bell had figured out the general location of the bullet (see cut), but no operation was performed. A more accurate guess (through deduction) by Anatomist Feneuil Dunkin Weisse was also disregarded, but later proved by autopsy. A wag cracked: "When ignorance is Bliss, 'tis folly to be Weisse." Two Points. Even though X-ray has long been...
...face of events, it even appeared that the U.S. had regained some of the lost moral and political ground. If so, the U.S. had in some measure to thank an essentially non-political soldier and Frenchman, General Henri Honore Giraud, High Commissioner of North Africa by grace of an assassin and the Allies...
...gives her reputation-to throw the inspector off the scent, she lets herself be discovered in Dr. Svoboda's bedroom by her fiancé (Dennis O'Keefe); and a local quisling (Gene Lockhart) whose double framing as both Heydrich's and the inspector's assassin solves two dilemmas with one bold stroke. Director Lang tells this story with real suspense, but seldom warms it with genuine emotion...
From North Africa by way of London last week came the first news about Admiral Jean François Darlan's assassin. He was 20-year-old Bonnier de la Chapelle, a member of the French patriotic youth organization Chantiers de Jeunesse, which aided Allied landings in North Africa but became bitter when Collaborationist Darlan emerged as chief of what many Frenchmen considered a Fascist North African regime. De la Chapelle had no connection with the Comte de Paris and his Monarchist organization. Instead, the Monarchists may have hoped to get power through Darlan...