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...looking, snub-nosed little car drew some mildly curious stares. Few of the onlookers realized that it was a postwar model of the Volkswagen, the car which Hitler once promised to put in every German garage. With an air-cooled rear engine, and a luggage compartment under the hood, it was the first of 600 which Germany is shipping to the U.S. to sell at $1,280 to $1,997. The Volkswagen's appearance was the latest example of a new business phenomenon: the growing revival of export trade in both Germany and Japan. Two weeks ago, the South...
Lancaster is probably the best acrobat now employed as an actor. After a series of gangster films, he obviously relishes his promotion from a hood to a Robin Hood. But dialogue still throws him, and his modern side-mouthings ("I'll meetcha inna tavern") sound a little disenchanting in Technicolored medieval Lombardy...
Like Robin Hood's men, his army would strike swiftly in small groups-kidnaping some purse-proud landlord here, killing a sheriff's man there-and fade elusively into mountain caves, vineyards and wheatfields. In seven years Giuliano's men had killed 79 national carabinieri, 25 local policemen, 40 civilians. They had collected more than $1,000,000 in ransoms from 30 kidnapings. Like Robin Hood's men they were said to rob only the rich & powerful. Half in hero worship and half in fear, the local peasants clamped their lips tight and kept their faces...
Died. Salvatore Giuliano, 27, famed Sicilian bandit, a Robin Hood to many a peasant and schoolboy, public enemy No. 1 to Italy's police; trapped by carabinieri gunfire; in Castelvetrano, Sicily (see FOREIGN NEWS...
...Fiat's technical-minded directors complained that De Chirico had made their car's hood too long and its body too short. Besides, the whole thing was out of perspective. Nonsense, cried De Chirico: "I did not want to follow the usual line of ad painting based on cubism, abstractionism and all the other isms. I always make it a point to paint things precisely as they...