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...movie is not great art, but it is great fun. Essentially it is one long, exciting, old-fashioned movie chase. Filmed in the Belgian Congo and Uganda by Director John Huston, it tells its adventure yarn in a blaze of Technicolor, fine wild scenery and action. While hippos gambol in the shallows and crocodiles gape evilly from mudbanks, Bogart and Hepburn fight each other, the elements and the Germans. They are shot at by natives, drenched by torrential downpours, devoured by mosquitoes and blood-sucking leeches, felled by malarial fevers. They triumph over heat, hardship and heartbreak only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Feb. 25, 1952 | 2/25/1952 | See Source »

...grotesque performance" in imprisoning A.P. Correspondent William Oatis (TIME, May 7 et seq.). Since Oatis was merely performing the routine duties of a reporter, Tobias said, the U.S. will never "cease to protest the use of William Oatis as a pawn in the suppression of freedom." Added Belgian Delegate Fernand Dehousse: The Communist's definition of a good reporter is one who "must believe the word of the Czech government... or else be considered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Grotesque Performance | 2/11/1952 | See Source »

...quarreled this time either, but neither did Europeans get excited about the general's remarks. The French, engulfed with their own domestic troubles and the uprising in Tunisia, found his statement on the inside pages of their newspapers; the German, Belgian and Netherlands papers also played it down. Generally, Europeans took the view that since Americans are not contemplating joining such a union themselves, they should be sparing in urging others to join. General Eisenhower was asking Western

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WESTERN EUROPE: New Age for an Old Continent | 2/4/1952 | See Source »

...nylon stocking, was known to have left Brussels with a young French medical officer named Count Vernier de Miraumont. The police finally found the man practicing gynecology in occupied Germany. They soon learned that he was neither a count, a doctor, an officer nor a Frenchman. He was a Belgian metal worker named Léon Meurant, and he had a long police record...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Droll Fellow | 1/14/1952 | See Source »

...Belgian, who is sponsored by The Belgian-American Foundation, is writing a Ph.D. thesis on treaties in the United Nations. He finds an up up-to-date collection of U.N. documents in the Edwin Ginn Library, situated in the basement of Gordon Hall. The collection of 50,000 volumes and pamphlets, including League of Nations publications and Pan-American Union information, was obtained from the World Peace Foundation...

Author: By Jonathan O. Swan, | Title: Embryo Diplomats Pursue International Life, Studies at Small, Congenial Fletcher School | 12/14/1951 | See Source »

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