Word: casablanca
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They stormed through Casablanca's native quarters, firing sporadically at native troops and French police, hurling bombs at French homes...
...Hollywood, Warner Bros, announced that it had signed a contract with ABC to produce 39 hour-long film shows for Tuesday-night showings next fall. Based on three oldtime Warner hits, Casablanca, King's Row, and Cheyenne, the series allots Warner six minutes per show to plug current pictures, gives ABC a major source of weekly readymades. The on-again-off-again love affair between TV and the moviemakers is plainly on again. Simple economics served as shotgun to the merger. Television has knocked out Hollywood's staple product, the inexpensive cops-and-robbers "B" picture. Since...
...State Department had really intended to aid the historian, it would have published a complete record of the Yalta proceedings. It would have made sure that its report of the conference was accurate. Furthermore, it would have published all the records of all the wartime conferences from Casablanca on, in chronological order. The Department did none of these things. Its spokesmen have admitted that deletions were made in the original documents. Prime Minister Churchill, who should know s much as any living person about the conference, insists that there are "serious inaccuracies" in the records as published. The Yalta meeting...
Died. S. Z. ("Cuddles") Sakall, 62, gelatin-jowled, Hungarian-born Holly wood character actor (Casablanca, Small Town Girl) famed for his heavily accented manglings of the English language ("No, no, no. Inside iss not; you must quick stay out!"); of heart disease; in Los Angeles...
With Albert gone, the officials had lost their best lead, but there are still many secondary sources to follow, though they are made difficult by the conspiracy of silence. In a bistro in Casablanca, three late-staying Moroccans asked for another round of drinks. "Go on, give it to them," the proprietor told his wife. "It's the last drink they'll ever have." Riding home in their car a few minutes later, the Moroccans were shot down by a blast of machine-gun bullets. Names like that of the bistro's proprietor are often spoken...