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...reading Khrushchev's heartbroken statement about Stalin's monstrous acts, I was reminded of the night of June 14, 1941 when 60,000 Estonians, Latvians and Lithuanians-more than half of them children and women-were loaded into barred cattle carriages. Destination: Siberia. Has anybody heard of the return of these people...
...urbane, intellectual patter, Britt Harris parley-voodoos her under his spell and out of Sam's arms, and even proposes marriage. The whole affair takes a bizarre turn when Monique tells him that her father was a Negro. Britt rejects her in a drunken fury, Monique commits suicide, heartbroken Sam resolves to kill Britt. The last quarter of the novel has the flavor of a Hitchcock thriller as the two men, as cagily on guard against each other as against the Germans, go on a mission behind enemy lines. Sam gets his revenge, though...
...naked, her long red hair, which when uncoiled reached her knees, trailing in the water behind her." But in a short two years all the romance had gone from their marriage. When Elinor confided to Clayton that a friend of his had the gall to kiss her, she was heartbroken to hear her husband chuckle. "Did he? Good old Brookie!" Clayton was ardent only for a male heir. When Elinor presented him with a second daughter, he took off for Monte Carlo in a huff and dropped ?10,000 at cards and roulette. Elinor put her seething romantic frustrations into...
...singing queens in reissues inspired by the current film about her life, Love Me or Leave Me (TIME, June 6). Ruth Etting is past mistress of the musical affectations of the jazz age-the faint hiccup, the tear in the larynx, the lilting dash into a phrase and the heartbroken sigh as it ends. Today, some of it sounds laughable, but Songstress Etting's languorous sweetness and warmth make most of it sound just fine. Songs range from the razzmatazz rhythms of Shaking the Blues Away and At Sundown to the seductive Mean...
Eventually he holes up in his flat, dreading Olga's knock, which one day comes, along with a final, heartbroken question: " 'Why has it all been ruined...