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Last spring, Gerard Philipe's nine-year-old son Olivier was dangerously ill in a Paris hospital when a photographer suddenly broke into his room, started snapping photos while the terrified child hid his head under the sheet...
...national Communist who eluded the Stalin purges in Rumania was Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej, a hardhanded railroad worker turned revolutionary. During the war, while Ana Pauker hid safely in Moscow, Dej and his associates organized anti-fascist resistance or else languished in the cells of various Rumanian prisons. By 1952, Dej and the nationalists who remained in the party had gained enough control in the Politburo to purge Ana Pauker. Dej still hewed cautiously to the Stalinist line, remained friendly with Moscow even after the dictator had died and been denounced. There were signs of the break to come, however...
...elegantly tangent to his lips. In classical antiquity, "Phrygian pipes" were played by prostitutes, and during the Renaissance an epidemic of flute playing swept across Europe. Henry VIII owned 148 flutes and tootled several hours a day. Frederick the Great of Prussia caught flute fever as a boy, and hid his teacher in a closet to escape the wrath of his flute-hating father. Though Couperin, Telemann, Vivaldi, Bach and Handel wrote stacks of magnificent music for it, the flute in those days was easy to hate. ("You ask me what is worse than a flute?" Cherubini once snarled...
...similar picture about village life in Samoa. Photographically speaking, Moana was the most beautiful movie made until that time-but beauty cut no ice with Paramount. Chopped in half, the film was billboarded as THE LOVE-LIFE OF A SOUTH SEA SIREN. For the next seven years the moneymen hid when they saw Flaherty coming...
...British victory. One English officer and 57 men held an outpost for nine hours against the attacks of 5,000 Indians. The Nawab prepared to order a general retreat, but he did not have to: Drake retreated first. In a panic he abandoned a key position-and then hid in a cellar, where he fell asleep on a storage bin. After he woke up, Drake took his first and last decisive action. He strode to the riverbank, jumped into a rowboat, and was last seen shinnying shamelessly aboard a merchantman moored near the fort...