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Desires (Meteor-Fama; Grand Prize Films) is the first German film in several years that is worth the expense of its subtitles. It starts as a brisk thriller about a drug-addicted ballerina who pilfers her poison from an apothecary's safe. But soon the picture is twisting through some gothic involutions of motive, and it finishes in one of those duels of abstractions the Germans love and almost manage to make believable...
Remorino has been called the Ribbentrop of the Perón regime. A handsome bachelor who studied law at the University of Paris, he has seen much more of the world than most Peronistas. After the war, he set up European operations of Argentina's FAMA airline, then returned to run the Argentine Postal Savings Bank. Named ambassador to the U.S. in 1948, he played a notable part in swinging a $125 million U.S. loan to Argentina. He also caused something of a feminine flutter among Washington's smart...
Argentina's energetic little Finance Minister, Ramon Cereijo, bounced aboard his FAMA plane at New York's Idlewild Airport one morning last week, and flew homeward with gladsome news. Argentina had been promised $200 million in U.S. Government and private bank credits. A formal announcement was expected within a few days...
Italians. Another racial question was raised last week when a Dr. Charles Fama of the Bronx, N. Y., promulgated the prophecy that 90% of the country's Italian-American vote would be pro-Hoover. The reason, according to Dr. Fama, was that Italians have been taught to favor "separation of church and state." Dr. Fama charged that secret orders were coming from Italy instructing U. S. Fascists to vote for Smith. Such orders, he said, would be indignantly disobeyed...
...Fama malum, qua non aliud velocius ullum...