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...Jesse James, the Outlaw and its sequels, Missouri's famed train robber was portrayed as a morally delinquent crook. Producer Darryl Zanuck naturally takes a kinder view of Jesse's failings. Purified in the person of Tyrone Power, Jesse James emerges brilliantly in Technicolor as an amiable brigand, genuinely devoted to his aged mother and generally more sinned against than sinning...
Esthete. In his polished culture and finely developed artistic tastes Prince Paul is a far cry from his peasant ancestor Karageorge who started the family career upward as an apprentice to a Turkish brigand. Of nine rulers in Belgrade in the last century only three died natural deaths at their posts. King Alexander I, assassinated in Marseille by Croatian zealots in 1934 was Paul's first cousin. Alexander's son, the present King Peter, is thus a first cousin once removed of Prince Paul...
...news of this bloody Kurdish affray- the climax, according to Prime Minister Ismet Inonü, of "659 recent disturbances in the Dersim region"-was carefully kept out of Turkey's press until the last brigand had been sent flying...
Another thunder-clap followed next day. Roberto Farinacci, editor of Cremona's Regime Fascista aimed at one particular Jew, Baron Maurice de Rothschild, French member of the famed banking family. Boomed Farinacci: "Rothschild offered plenty of help to that brigand Haile Selassie. ... He finances all anti-Fascist movements and now prefers to live and amuse himself in Florence...
...pilgrimage, to kiss this most sacred of all objects, the Black Stone. On camel, burro, foot and occasionally hands & knees, some 70,000 devotees annually make the hajj over the desert sands to Mecca. Last week, fat, wealthy Mussulmen loath to subject themselves to such a hot, dusty, brigand-infested journey had for the first time a better means of travel. From Cairo, Misr Airwork of Egypt inaugurated a special service for pilgrims, flying up the Nile to Aswan, thence across the Red Sea to Jidda and on into the interior to isolated Mecca. Fare...