Word: free
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...passes of the north and east the Indian army engaged fierce Waziris, Afridis and Kashmiri tribesmen from areas where Kashmir blends with the North West Frontier Province in rugged mountain wasteland. There, in remote Gilgit, where the Indian subcontinent touches Soviet Russia, is quartered a government called Azad Kashmir (Free Kashmir) headed by an ambitious onetime petty civil servant named Sirdar Ibrahim...
Jean Arthur, a visiting Congresswoman is flabbergasted to find John Lund, an American captain, fraternizing with Marlene Dietrich, the ex-mistress of a fugitive top Nazi. As bad or worse, Miss Dietrich is going around scot free; she is even singing in a nightclub. Millard Mitchell, a levelheaded, wisecracking colonel, does his best to calm Miss Arthur down; but since she is falling for Captain Lund, she doesn't calm easily. At long last she comes to realize that the Army always has its reasons: Miss Dietrich is being used to smoke her jealous Nazi lover out of hiding...
...result, at the company's annual meeting last spring, was a free-for-all brawl for control. The opposing factions tried to shout and push each other down, and held a tug of war with company records. They finally had to call a cop (to restore a modicum, of order) and go to court before the quarrel was temporarily settled in favor of the adamant management. But the management had had a bad scare...
Temper & Trash. The man who wrote the copy and stirred up the teapot tempest is smart, free-speaking Elliott White Springs, 51, president of South Carolina's Springs Mills (and of seven other textile companies, three banks and a railroad), and an old hand at stirring up excitement...
Isabel and the Sea will make even a coal miner imagine himself "running free under number-two jib, staysail, mainsail, and mizzen . . . setting course for the volcanic island of Stromboli." In addition to nautical charm, it is loaded to the gunwales with deft and lively pictures of European life and manners-pictures which unroll as on sensitive film as Truant weaves her way across a continent...