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...picture: an in quisitive governess (Gail Russell); a suspiciously unpleasant widower (Joel McCrea); a medical neighbor with a voice like sloe gin (Herbert Marshall); a brutal and mysterious murder; two edgy chil dren (Nona Griffith and Richard Lyon) in sadistic league about some grim secret; a sour-eyed furnace-fixer (Mikhail Rasumny) ; and a rumor of wandering lights in the boarded-up mansion next door...
Stuff & Things. Venus Fixer DeWald, a softspoken, pipe-smoking ex-professor of art history at Princeton, was an infantry officer in World War I. Colonel DeWald has followed on the heels of advancing Allied armies, listing damage, determining what "first aid" is needed. When he sees some of the atrocities committed on art by the retreating Nazis, he frequently has trouble with his blood pres sure. During the past year Colonel De Wald, who invariably refers to Italy's priceless objets d'art as "stuff & things," could sketch, from reports of his staff, a broad outline of what...
Watch on Bucharest. With no waste of time, the U.S. and Britain let Moscow know that they disliked the smell of the Government set up in Bucharest last fortnight by the Kremlin's fixer, Andrei Januari Vishinsky (TIME, March...
...Selznick, she combines and uses the talents of ace trouble shooter, saleswoman, fixer, promoter, talent scout, fashion ex pert, beauty expert and housemother. Ingrid Bergman would prefer not to be photographed unless Colby is on hand. Jennifer Jones thinks twice about blowing her nose without reporting to Colby. Inde pendent of Publicity Chief Don King, she works closely with Selznick, handling all deals public and personal which call for grade-A finesse. Her social and journalistic contacts in both New York and Hollywood are peerless; she calls Winchell Walter and Lyons Lennie. To all the people on earth who most...
Died. Josef Bürckel, 49, veteran Nazi Gauleiter in the Saar, Austria and Lorraine ; of pneumonia; in Germany. One of Hitler's earliest henchmen, liquor-swilling Bürckel developed from a dissatisfied elementary schoolteacher into Hitler's top plebiscite fixer...