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...Amazing Jean "Toots" Thielemans (Columbia). Jazz on the harmonica. Belgian Thielemans, who learned his trade despite the Nazi jazz ban, now has the lively support of several mellow combos. He swings high, free and with surprising feeling, not to mention expert marksmanship. He cannot, however, resist an occasional gypsy switch...
...Exile." "I am living the life of a monk," he wrote exultantly from Belgium. "I have a bed which is about a hand's-breadth wide . . ." From his narrow couch, Hugo fled on to the Channel Islands, after leaving most of his sizable fortune in investments in a Belgian bank and accepting from the Belgian Prime Minister "an offer of shirts" to soften the road of poverty...
...delegates read their reports to an international congress on leprosy sponsored by the Knights of Malta.* In Burma there were 2,000 known leprosy cases in 1951; now there are 30,000. In the Belgian Congo there are now 250,000 known leprosy victims, compared to only 60,000 a few years ago. In French Equatorial Africa there were 37,508 known cases in 1951; now there...
Pygmalion. Carolina's benefactor was an Englishman named Robert Wilbraham Fitz Aucher. A vicar's son, Fitz Aucher was a man of great charm and erratic fortune. Three years ago he struck it rich when he sold a rust-proofing process to a Belgian steel concern for close to $1,000,000. After that he expanded gloriously, launching enterprises from Norway to Iran. He did not marry, but brooding on his loneliness, decided to adopt children. He dreamed of being a Pygmalion to some poor Italian girl and transforming her into a perfect English lady. Italian friends sent...
...story inevitably follows from one situation: that of a German officer billeted with an old Belgian lady and her daughter. Despite their differences in age and background, the officer and the daughter fall in love. But as the Resistance spreads they become caught up in the war, against themselves. When the movie is half over the ending has become clear...