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Telling the story of a lady of disrepute who leaps from the oblivion of a Hollywood dive to the magnificence of a Hollywood winter resort, "The Bride Wore Red" gives itself away almost before it starts, so obvious is the plot. In fact the film's greatest asset is the fact that it suffers no illusions as to its own importance. Pleasantly it wends its way, and pleasantly it will affect the cinematic taste of the semi-sentimental moviegoer...
...Benito Mussolini was to be a guest. Bombing planes chased by pursuit ships streaked across the sky, anti-aircraft guns chattered, the entire Wilhelmstrasse quarter of government buildings disappeared in the thick smoke of fake bombs, and subject to severe fines was any citizen of Berlin who did not dive like a rabbit into the bombproof shelter nearest him. Black streamers were plastered about liberally to indicate "DESTRUCTION" and afternoon papers spoke of the bombing fleet as "RED." Thus last week German minds were prepared to appreciate a visit by Benito Mussolini to Adolf Hitler, both loud in proclaiming...
Perhaps I reflect his habit when I am amused occasionally by some TIME writer when he takes a high dive after your elusive style and comes up covered with teeaweed...
Last week the Board took by no means its first but certainly its most spectacular dive into the muddied waters of dual unionism. The case involved National Electric Products Corp. Bidding for National Electric's 1,600 workers in Ambridge, Pa., near Pittsburgh, vere the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (A. F. of L.) and the United Electrical & Radio Workers (C. I. O.). Last May the company suddenly signed an A. F. of L. contract providing not only for exclusive bargaining but also for a closed shop. That meant that every C. I. O. man in National Electric...
Fifteen miles from Patna all the travelers were shocked into full consciousness, many of them for only a few seconds. With a thunder of shattered wood, a shriek of torn steel, the train and seven cars took a head dive over the embankment, settled in a chaotic mess. The first two cars were completely telescoped, buried beneath the two that followed. From the two rear cars, which had stayed miraculously on the rails, leaped frenzied Europeans to behold a scene described by one as "like any battlefield." Relief workers rushing to the spot dragged more than 100 dead and mangled...