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Died. A. E. (for Alfred Edward) Matthews, 90, peppery, debonair British actor, who trouped the world in more than 300 plays in 73 years (the first 67 without missing a performance) ; in Bushey Heath, England...
...Moscow star. When Stalin ordered a purge of Titoists in the '40s, Bulgaria's Communists obediently hanged one of their number, Deputy Premier Traicho Kostov, after a show trial at which witnesses asserted he was a traitor who served not only Tito but U.S. Minister Donald Heath. In outrage, Washington broke off relations with Bulgaria...
...truth"-and wasn't it too bad he was already dead? Bulgaria also proclaimed itself as keen as Khrushchev in its desire to coexist peaceably with the U.S. The U.S. replied coldly that, before patching up relations, Bulgaria would also have to take back its lies about Minister Heath (now U.S. Ambassador to Saudi Arabia...
Symphonies & Sausage. That a sex murderer may also serve the Life Force is the notion behind Ritual in the Dark, and it will probably convince no one except Author Wilson. Ever since Colin (The Outsider) Wilson scrambled to fame out of a Hampstead Heath sleeping bag five years ago, he has been working on this first novel, loosely modeled on the saga of Jack the Ripper. During three months in 1888, the infamous ripper slashed six women to death, all but one of whom were middleaged, drink-sodden prostitutes. He was never captured...
...wind-blasted heath south of Hamburg, the Germans have made a "Park of Remembrance." It is the site of the hell called Belsen, one of the infamous concentration camps and prisons in which 4,000,000 Jews were done t0 death in Nazi times. Though thousands went on to gas chambers elsewhere, most of Belsen's own 30,000 victims died of typhus, starvation and maltreatment in the two weeks before the British liberated the camp. Their graves are" 13 long, low mounds marked simply and grimly: "Here lie buried 1,000 bodies." "Here lie 2,500 bodies." Among...