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Most men of culture and science wore blinders. When the Nazis eventually forced Conductor Bruno Walter to flee Germany in 1933, he was nonplused: Why him? "I had never taken an active part in politics." In his Reflections of a Non-Political Man, written in 1918, Thomas Mann proclaimed that he was unpolitical and proud of it. He changed his mind later. The pit of politics was left to ambitious drones or dregs. In the end it was a couple of wellborn smart-alecks, General Kurt von Schleicher and ex-Lieut. Colonel Franz von Papen, both conservatives, both of good...
Four other men attached to the Mob were hit. Bruno Carnevale, a "soldier" in the Carlo Gambino family,* was felled by a shotgun blast near his house in Queens Village, and died with $1,400 still in his pocket. A day later Tommy Ernst, a Staten Island mobster, was fatally wounded. A New Jersey janitor named Frank Ferriano was found in a lower Manhattan parking lot with half his head blown off by a shotgun blast. Hours later Richard Grossman, said to be a credit-card swindler working for the Colombo family, was found in the trunk...
...Miami Beach. After getting his first journalistic experience on the old New York American, Heatter switched to the young field of radio news in the early '30s. He won national attention in 1936 with 53 minutes of dramatic, adlibbed commentary from outside the death house the night Kidnaper Bruno Hauptmann was executed. For the next quarter-century, Heatter's mellifluous baritone carried good news and bad to huge network audiences...
...BRUNO PAGLIAI...
Annie Girardot is an exceptional actress, but she is allowed little opportunity to prove it in the role of the teacher. To play her adolescent par amour, Cayatte has chosen Bruno Pradal, 22, an actor who looks no more than 30. Two days before her death, Gabrielle Russier said, "I hope what is happening to me serves some pur pose." The moviegoer can only hope that some higher purpose has been served than this film...