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...great fun. Essentially it is one long, exciting, old-fashioned movie chase. Filmed in the Belgian Congo and Uganda by Director John Huston, it tells its adventure yarn in a blaze of Technicolor, fine wild scenery and action. While hippos gambol in the shallows and crocodiles gape evilly from mudbanks, Bogart and Hepburn fight each other, the elements and the Germans. They are shot at by natives, drenched by torrential downpours, devoured by mosquitoes and blood-sucking leeches, felled by malarial fevers. They triumph over heat, hardship and heartbreak only to end as prisoners of the Germans, with the hangman...
Such drink-and-gape spots are not as numerous as the ordinary bars, however. At these oases maturer individuals--chiefly indigenous to the Square--gather nightly for the serious business of drinking...
Blueshirted young Communists from the World Youth Festival invaded West Berlin again last week, but this time it was no innocent visit to gobble free food, gape at well-stocked department stores, see the exhibits, color television, radio shows and movies the Western allies had set up for their Communist callers. This time 14,000 crossed the border on business: to stir up hatred against the West...
Kenneth ("Tea & Crumpets") Gape [whose elder brother was unwilling to accept an English inheritance, TIME, May 28] appears to share the illusion of many otherwise well-informed Americans that Britons are still taking it on the chin because they have a Socialist government, clearly does not realize that the tight little island is out of joint (and out of Sunday joints) mainly because of the beating it took while helping to beat Hitler...
...looked as if the estate might yet go to the third heir, a distant English cousin named David Bennett, who could have it if the others rejected it, and provided that he agreed to change his name to Gape...