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Paratrooper (Columbia) gains some freshness as a war picture by having Alan Ladd go through his deadpan heroics as a member of the British army. Ex-U.S. Captain Ladd pretends to be a Canadian and volunteers as a private in the paratroops. He soon learns that, no matter what uniform they wear, noncoms are noncoms, and spends a fortnight in the stockade for slugging his corporal in a barroom brawl. But the picture soon demonstrates that it intends to be different: one of the tough top kicks, showing his squad how easy it is to bail...
...diversionary activities." The Communists had kept him two years in prison to teach him his lines. Yes, said the dead, obedient voice, he had worked secretly with the Nazis during the occupation to keep the people "meek and cooperative." He had helped American officials to "prepare a new war." Ex-U.S. Ambassador Arthur Bliss Lane had paid him off for his espionage with a gold fountain pen and large sums of money...
...leading political candidate is Connecticut's ex-U.S. Senator John A. Danaher, 54, a onetime Taftman, who campaigned last year for Eisenhower. Danaher has the backing of Connecticut's Senators Prescott Bush and William Purtell. Danaher's legal background: left Yale Law School in his final year, took his bar exams after clerking in a lawyer's office; now has a substantial practice in Washington, where he mingles law with lobbying. The other candidate is Connecticut's senior U.S. District Judge Carroll C. Hincks, 63, Republican and Yale Law graduate ('14), appointed...
While Mrs. Perle Mesta, ex-U.S. Minister to Luxembourg, was off on her guided tour of the Soviet Union, some highly discriminating thieves broke into her Newport, R.I. villa, next door to the mansion of Railroad Financier Robert R. Young. The booty: three egg cups, several ash trays and a small selection of cups & saucers...
...Manhattan, John David Provoo, 35, ex-U.S. Army sergeant and onetime devotee of Japanese Buddhism; was convicted of treason after a trial lasting 15 weeks (TIME, Nov. 24). Charges on which the jury found Provoo guilty: 1) offering his services to the Japanese army following his capture at Corregidor in May 1942; 2) helping to cause the execution of one fellow prisoner by denouncing him to the Japanese as "uncooperative"; 3) participating in two wartime Japanese propaganda broadcasts. The eighth U.S. citizen to be convicted of treason since World War II, Provoo was the second to be convicted...