Word: compatriots
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...most simply attentive to an artist's job. Whoever else may have fumbled at the rope or muffled the clapper, the 27-year-old Swedish actress, Ingrid Bergman, hit the Bell such a valiant and far-sounding clang that there had been nothing like it since her great compatriot Greta Garbo enchanted half the world...
...young man, Joseph Retinger knew his great compatriot Theodor Joseph Konrad Korzeniowski intimately, especially from 1909 to the outbreak of World War I. Now a member of the Polish Government in London, Retinger writes of those days in the sharp, graceful dialect of an old-fashioned boulevardier of letters. His book is illustrated by the brilliant Polish draftsman Feliks Topolski (TIME, Jan. 4). All of which makes for no mean addition to Conradiana...
...week's end a female compatriot of Pedro's tried a less ambitious but nonetheless staggering swim-the 42 windy miles down the Paraná from Campana to San Fernando, at the head of the Estuary. She was Mrs. Soledad Bueno de Gutierrez, 38, swimming teacher in a Buenos Aires department store. She made it-in 17 hours, 38 minutes...
After being greeted by compatriot professors J. A. C. Fagginger Auer, Bart J. Bok, and J. Anton de Haas, Queen Wilhelmina left Massachusetts Hall, and proceeded slowly around the Yard. As the procession moved around the north end of the Yard, men of the Naval Training School, who were drawn up in hollow square formation, came to attention, facing her car as it passed...
...clear that Author Helen MacInnes has studied the slick screen thrillers of her compatriot Alfred Hitchcock (The 39 Steps, The Lady Vanishes, etc.). Her first novel makes fast reading. Speeded up to her master's pace, it would make still better screening...