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...Trans-Lux and Somerset Maugham's Trio at the Sutton (57th and Third. The Red Shoes is still around; it plays at the Victoria through Christmas day. Perhaps the best of this group is Night Train, now ten years old, a superb thriller involving Rex Harrison, Margaret Lockwood, the Gestapo, a cable car, and as many furtive aples as Carol Reed could round up. It is scheduled to close tomorrow at the Beverly (50th and Third...
...murderess' flight on a river barge; the Prix Théophraste Renaudot to Pierre Molaine (in real life Major Léopold Faure, tank officer in the French army) for his Les orgues de I'enfer, a story about a resistance fighter hiding from the Gestapo in an insane asylum. The fourth big prize, the Prix Interallié, was yet to come...
Everybody in Dawson, Ga. (pop. 4,670) knew that 29-year-old Erle Cocke Jr. had come out of World War II a major with a chestful of medals, that he had been stabbed by a Gestapo agent, shot twice and captured by the Germans three times, and had finally been thrust before a firing squad and left for dead...
...supervised Romance Road, lined with benches for convenience and street lamps for decorum. Some students wanted to know just how much supervision the professor was calling for. But the student council liked the idea. As things stood now, complained the council president, campus cops were prowling about like the Gestapo, and that was the wrong emphasis. "We're [the council] more interested in preventing students from going off the deep end than lying in wait for them...
...poor as well as the coffee barons. He gave Brazil the 48-hour week, a minimum wage, pensions, vacations with pay. He also banned strikes, abolished Congress and founded the Estado Novo, an "authoritative democracy" complete with a fascist-type constitution, press censorship, and a home-grown gestapo. When the Nazis swept over Europe in 1940, Vargas proclaimed: "It is not the end of civilization :>ut the beginning, tumultuous and fecund...