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...begin to crumble, his friend and partner, Nigel Bruce, is mysteriously murdered, and due to evident circumstances, Grant is suspected. Miss Fontaine is taken with fear of her husband, fear that he is a murderer and that she may be his next victim. She tries to flee from him, but he reaches her, and in the most depressingly "phoney" scene of the film, tells her the truth; that he is innocent. The ending to the original story, that the hero actually is the murderer, is replaced (to avoid jarring the public's emotions) by a happy Hollywood finale, which mildly...
...again from the mountains that surround Italy's loveliest African seaport. Futilely the Luftwaffe rose to ward off the blows of a superior enemy. At last they gave up. Tripoli fell in flames and smoke, much of its harbor facilities, many of its military installations demolished by the fleeing Nazis. They continued to flee as light British warships crowded in and shelled them from the sea; as Allied planes strafed them, turning wild-running trucks into long fiery columns; as British artillery barked at their heels...
...sinister district centering about the rue de Lappe. As 'Papa' Thernardier, he organized the gang that stole a towel from the Hotel Claridge and defaced the blotters at the American Express Co. A démarche from the Quai d'Orsay shortly forced him to flee Paris...
...most unsavory pottage of all, as Chang soon found. For ten years he was a puppet in a conquered land. It was a mess he could not spit out, a mess from which he could not flee. The people of Free China would never again trust Chang. There was only one way out. Finally he took...
Westward Rommel continued to flee until, at week's end, he was 225 miles from El Aghéila and still pelting on toward Tripoli. He might stop short of that port. He might make a stand there just to keep such a handy harbor and supply base out of General Montgomery's hands. But there were increasing signs that he might retreat all the way to Tunisia...