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Reported Dead: Maurice Thorez, 51, France's Communist boss until last November, when he suffered a stroke and was flown to Russia for medical treatment. Persistent rumors from Warsaw and Stock holm say Thorez died in Moscow. The French Communists deny the reports, claim that Thorez is, in fact, getting better. Possible reasons for keeping Thorez' death secret: 1) the problem of his succession in the French Communist Party; 2) reflection on Russian surgery...
...barricaded bathroom, where police broke through the metal door and found Joyce. She was bleeding from both wrists which she had scratched with a double-edged razor blade. "Why did this have to happen to me?" Rose moaned. Then he remembered his wife, Eleanor Holm, onetime Olympic swimmer and Aquacade beauty. "Now is the time to have a wife," he muttered, and got on the telephone. Eleanor, a wife in need, arrived soon after Joyce had been taken away in an ambulance; she pitched in, and did her best to help shield Rose from reporters and photographers. In the hospital...
Gramercy Ghost (by John Cecil Holm; produced by Roger Clark in association with Evans M. Frankel) is a pale little fantasy trying hard to be a farce. In inheriting a house in Manhattan's historic Gramercy Park, a young lady (agreeably played by Winston Churchill's daughter Sarah) also acquires the ghost of a Revolutionary War soldier. She already has two living beaux, but the ghost falls in love with her, too; since only she can see and hear him, she is first thought to be drunk and then demented...
Comedy Hour (Sun. 8 p.m., NBC). Tony Martin, Fred Allen, Celeste Holm...
...Holm and director Reginald Denham fulfill another important requirement of the Commercial Success by careful handling of the supporting cast, the character actors. There are six in all, a policeman, a maid, two ambulance drivers, and two ethereal comrades of the ghost, and their scenes are tapped for all possible comedy angles, including the usual topical gags...