Word: berne
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Brooklyn, U.S.A. (by John Bright & Asa Bordages; produced by Bern Bernard & Lionel Stander). The Brooklyn "businessmen" who operated as Murder Inc. here return unsoftened and undisguised. No hopped-up killer-diller, Brooklyn, U.S.A. is as tough, cold-blooded and obscene as the rats who are its characters. A fast two-man job with an ice pick in a barbershop creates more horror, carries more conviction than Hollywood's slickest thrill-mongering. But once the D.A. gets the mobsters on the run, the play loses its fascinating documentary flavor, becomes just another melodrama...
What U.S. correspondents in Germany think of how the war is going-unlike the opinions of newsmen in Bern, Stockholm, Ankara and almost everywhere else-had until last week been little heard in the U.S. To find out, TIME'S Stephen Laird got 18 U.S. newsmen in Berlin (all except those of United Press and Chicago Daily News') to answer a questionnaire telling, as they saw it, how things are going, how the war is likely...
...midst of the tension a strange story had been broadcast to the world. The story: Marshal Petain and Admiral Darlan had flown to North Africa and rioting was going on in Vichy. The story originated in Bern, was broadcast by the German radio, picked up and repeated by the British radio. Germany claimed that its radio had broadcast a denial with the story, that the British radio had left out the denial and repeated the story to stir up bad feeling between France and Germany. Maybe this was true. Or maybe Germany just wanted to tell France what could happen...
Last week the R. A. F. made good a British promise to exhibit at Leipzig's big 1940 industrial fair, by unloading bombs on the Leipzig railroad station. Junkers aircraft are made at Leipzig, also at Bern-burg and Dessau, which the R. A. F. duly visited. At Berlin, the first important industrial target hit was the Siemens-Schuckert electrical works...
...eyed Eugene ("Goober") Cox of Camilla, Ga., Tory hatchetman who dominates the House Rules Committee. Mr. Cox felt the fury that comes only to those who outsmart themselves. Intent on sabotaging the act, he rammed to the floor three sets of amendments sponsored by Graham Barden of New Bern, N. C., which would have exempted from the law practically all workers engaged in handling agricultural products-a prospect greatly pleasing to the strawberry producers and other farmers in Mr. Barden's district...