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...more than half the way The Winter's Tale is harsh, high-busted melodrama. On flimsy grounds King Leontes of Sicilia (Henry Daniell) inflames his own imagination with insanely jealous suspicions of his Queen and Polixenes, King of Bohemia...
This form of diphtheria is just as apt to attack adults as children. Even those who have been inoculated are not safe. The disease now flourishes in The Netherlands (4,000 new cases in one month) and Bohemia (1,700 cases in a month) and has made a start in Japan (over 3,000 cases in Tokyo this year). Inoculation is still the best way to fight it, but neither UNRRA nor the Army inoculates civilians. A few countries have managed to inoculate their schoolchildren, but grownups everywhere are taking their risky chances...
...factory. Strangers wandered in & out at will. But the explosions over Hiroshima and Nagasaki brought a quick change. The security police moved in, and Germans who had worked in the factory were rounded up, put back to work. Former officials of the Krizek Works were kept out. In northern Bohemia the Russians took over the Jachymov mine, famed for its uranium deposits...
...time Bohemia was blacked out by war, Vejvoda had already collected sizable royalties. Polka sold more than a half million copies in the U.S. alone...
Died. Emil Hacha, 73, collaborationist President of Czechoslovakia after the Nazi-forced resignation of Edward Benes in 1938, puppet president of the Protectorate of Bohemia-Moravia during the German occupation, No. Ι on the Czech list of accused traitors; in a Prague prison hospital...