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Wounds, Jail, Escape. De Lattre made his early entrances with characteristic élan. Born like Clemenceau in the Vendée village of Mouilleron-en-Pareds, the village where De Lattre's 97-year-old father has been mayor for 40 years, De Lattre startled the neighbors early in life by leading cavalry charges across the garden astride his father's great Dane. As a young lieutenant of dragoons just out of St. Cyr in World War I, he earned his first wound and his first citation in a victorious hand-to-hand clash with two German Uhlans...
This week H.M.S. Perseus, light (12,265 tons) carrier of the Royal Navy, was en route to Philadelphia, prepared to demonstrate a new catapult designed to handle hefty modern aircraft. The new catapult has been tested for more than a year. Weights, dummies, pilotless planes and finally regular carrier craft have been flung into the air at speeds up to 135 knots-fast enough for flight even when the ship is riding at anchor...
Some stories have relatively happy endings. En route from London to Rome, Tom Dozier was aroused early one morning on shipboard, made his pajama-clad way to the door and, blinking, saw Poet T. S. Eliot bearing a written invitation to dinner. In West Texas, Bill Johnson was sent a desperately needed telegraphic money order, only to learn that the sole Western Union operator within 100 miles had just broken...
Double Indictment. Six times in the ensuing six years, the State Department's own Loyalty Security Board debated whether these meetings made Service guilty of disloyalty to the U.S. Six times Service was cleared. (For the sixth hearing, he was recalled while en route to be U.S. consul general in Calcutta.) Last week the Civil Service Commission's Loyalty Review Board, the capital's top loyalty panel, reversed the finding, decided there was a "reasonable doubt" of Service's loyalty, and recommended that he be fired...
...what this picture is about. It appears that the most psychopathic of the abounding royalty (Laughton) has a grudge against the members of one side of his family; Karloff, on the other hand, likes them. He therefore tosses Laughton into a water wheel which is about to crush en masse the only admirable characters in the film. Laughton clogs the wheel, and all is well...