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...story of a hunted man and his struggle back to safety is too well known to demand repeating. The picture, however, does bear seeing again, even for a third or fourth time. Robert Newton as a mad artist searching for a mysterious "dying look"; the elfin, almost intangible bird fancier who is overjoyed when he finds a "caged" human; and the plump, insidious informer in a flowered dress who slyly traps the unsuspecting rebels these and the others present a pageant that stands up with Bank's best. Hollywood should watch out lest some wayward Goalie breath blow down...
...next two days were heavy with fog and rain. The Trumans passed them in relative quiet. With White House Physician Wallace Graham, an orchid fancier, the President clambered 1,000 feet up precipitous Corcovado Mountain behind the American Embassy. They found six orchid plants, one in bloom. Mrs. Truman and Margaret went out shopping, bought handbags, filigree jewelry and carved wooden animals. The President made a surprise appearance at the opera, drew a wild ovation...
...Saratoga, owners of fancier horse flesh, worth $5,000,000 or more, were nervous if not panicky. Some 25 horses which had been vanned in from New England in the past month were checked twice a day. At week's end Saratoga closed without a case of swamp fever; but not until frost, said the vets, can horse owners in the northeastern U.S. breathe easily...
...blow lasted 2½ days. While fancier racing craft had to shorten sail to ride it out, the rugged 71-ft. schooner Dolphin II, owned and captained by Actor Frank Morgan, was doting on the gale. She sped westward under full canvas...
Hedda's Weapons. With all these handicaps-and after all, Beethoven was deaf-Hedda has some wicked weapons, and knows how to use them. She can print what she does about Hollywood people because she knows still fancier stuff that the mails would not carry, and because her own private life is blackmail-proof. And she knows how to turn her most outrageous mistakes into a joke. To one "planter's" hurt question why she had reduced his exclusive scoop to one line, low in her column (it was one of her mistakes), she crowed: "Bitchery, baby, pure...