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Surrendering the city to avoid bombing, the small Greek garrison and most of the population moved inland to the hills to think things over. While the Italians were still trying to coax them out with ultimatums, the German occupation force of three arrived by motor launch, bowed politely out when they found the small end of the Axis in possession. Next day the Greeks capitulated finally and the Italians made sure of their prize with three infantry battalions...
...Spanish colony, newsmen found conditions only a degree better than a concentration camp: 120 people without adequate tools, medical supplies, clothing or food trying courageously to coax a living from 20 arid acres, four milkless cows, a few pigs and chickens. A political fight has frozen the funds supposed to support the colony, which sinks deeper in debt every time it buys the meagre rations of coffee, rice and beans it lives on. Only bright spot was the morale and spirit of the colonists themselves who, ridden with anemia and malaria, work desperately hard, hold classes for natives...
...buyer of Paris high-style merchandise. But "Skap's" stand made him see red. His wife Sophie had recently completed showing her own custom-made midseason collection, without any help from Paris, was full of excitement about fine textiles and exclusive gewgaws that she had been able to coax out of hitherto mass-production-minded U. S. manufacturers. Said Mr. Gimbel: "The Paris of the old days is not the Paris under totalitarian government. Schiaparelli is either misguided-or under the influence of the Vichy Government...
...supposed to know that "boy cows" are not steers but cow boys. Malapropism is not Curtiz' only peculiarity. He addresses everyone at Warner's up to Bette Davis as "you bum," gives the best borscht bawlings-out in the business. He takes no lunch, tried to coax actors to have an aspirin instead, uses "after-lunch actor" as his supreme epithet of contempt. When anything goes wrong on the set, Curtiz is immediately convinced that he is being jinxed by the presence of his personal secretary, whom he calls "Dracula," stops everything to find him. Once John Barrymore...
Movie theatres and chains now offer prizes equal to Pot o' Gold's to coax patrons away from the magic call and into theatres. Information Please, opposite Pot o' Gold, in self-defense instituted a giveaway on its own high intellectual plane-sets of Encyclopaedia Britannica. On CBS, Competitor Walter O'Keefe, with nothing to give listeners but wit, dwindled off the air middle of last month...