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...Hitler's bigwigs closeup at the Berlin Auto Show, when he talked his way into a restricted area, found himself rubbing elbows with Hitler himself, Hess, Goebbels and Göring. Twice he was arrested by the Gestapo-once for photographing a riot, again for being in a café suspected as a gathering place for people who didn't like Nazis...
...gallant and naive young officer named Clive Candy (Roger Livesey), back from the Boer War with a V.C., who takes it upon himself-very much without diplomatic portfolio-to go to Berlin in order to refute some popular German lies about British mistreatment of Boer prisoners. A café quarrel leads to a duel, thanks to which young Candy 1) gets the wound which causes him to raise his Blimpish mustache, 2) makes a lifelong friend of his unwilling opponent (Anton Walbrook), 3) loses, to this Prussian officer, a charming English girl (Deborah Kerr) whom he has shyly begun...
...robomb overhead suddenly go out and then the big frame of the bomb dove down on us in perfect silence, an inhuman Moloch coming to devour us. We threw ourselves to the ground and it burst nearby, breaking all the windows but not hurting anyone. I went to a café where I had been the first American three months previously and was kissed and embraced by the barmaid and given free drinks of cognac. The people told me: "We can stand the buzz bombs. That's nothing. But the Germans. We couldn't stand the Germans here...
...which has owned and published it through almost its entire career, the Manhattan Munns, one of Ward McAllister's original "400." Present editor and publisher (third in the line) is Orson Desaix Munn, 61, a patent lawyer, crack bird hunter and fisherman, rumba fancier, familiar figure in Manhattan café society. He passes on everything that goes into the magazine...
Walk, Don't Run. In Manhattan, when fire broke out at the Charles Café, customers were herded into line, headed toward the door, passed the cashier's desk, paid their checks...