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...GERT P. ARNSTEIN...
Just as the stream of self-conscious ness winds down to a thin treacle, the film-and the car-take flight. Caractacus spins a tale of adventure, with Chitty Chitty Bang Bang as the hero. The car soars and sails, evil Baron Bomburst (Gert Frobe) covets it and unleashes comic villains to kidnap its owner. Instead, they get Grandpa. Off he goes to Vulgaria, a horrid land where children are forbidden. Underneath the baron's castle, the banished boys and girls have hidden for years, waiting for salvation...
Feted with Champagne. Ludke, 57, a handsome, gregarious man, was not told of the suspicions against him until three days before he left the navy. The occasion was a champagne luncheon feting his retirement. After a laudatory farewell speech by Defense Minister Gerhard Schroder, Vice Admiral Gert Jeschonnek, the chief of the navy, and a counterespionage man took Ludke aside to question him. The admiral at first lamely explained that someone must have stolen the Minox to take the pictures. However, he later changed his story to claim that he wanted the documents for his memoirs. If so, they would...
...THIS BEAR!, by Bernice Myers (Four Winds Press; $3.50). Dressed in his furry hat and coat, little Herman goes off to visit his Aunt Gert. He looks just like a bear, and that is just what a passing bear thinks he is. Herman has a terrible time trying to persuade the bears that he is really a boy. He sings and dances and ties his shoelaces, but Papa Bear only says, "See what happens when a bear has a chance to go to the big city and learn a trade...
...Cross, the English granted him a full pardon. The movies, however, have not. In Triple Cross he has been doublecrossed with an overblown, underdeveloped film in which he is misplayed to disadvantage by Christopher Plummer. Surrounding Plummer is a competent cast, including Yul Brynner, Romy Schneider, Claudine Auger and Gert Frobe. But the whole enterprise seems to suggest that a spy does not necessarily improve the more times he crosses his employers. A triple agent can be three times duller than a single...