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...thousands hung over their TVs and radios, rescuers worked on. At the 21st floor ledge, men spread a net, like fishermen in a sea of air. Jones's father and sister, and a priest, the Rev. Paul Huber, joined the rescuers on the 47th floor...
Flight into Egypt. At the Colonial. A tense drama about Viennese expatriates struggling to reach America. Paul Lucas and Gusti Huber are excellent in their portrayals of the pride of a husband and the moral decay of a wife...
...outstanding performances of the play, which make it a rewarding dramatic experience in spite of its structural defects, are the interpretations of Mr. and Mrs. Engel by Paul Lukas and Gusti Huber. The latter, an Austrian actress appearing for the first time on an American stage, is particularly excellent in the difficult role of a cultured woman whose ideals and emotions corrode away in the struggle to live. Mr. Lukas is extremely moving in his portrayal of a proud man with indomitable will, who refused to believe that physical weakness could prevent him from achieving his goal...
During last week's stormy House debate on wartime economic controls (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), Ohio Democrat Walter B. Huber uncorked a surprise. He jumped to his feet and offered an amendment calling for a corporate excess profits tax. Without bothering to ask for details, the House promptly gave its approval by a standing vote. When House Republicans later found that Huber's amendment would restore the sky-high 80% maximum tax (and the same basis for computing it) as in World War II, they forced another vote, and the amendment was tossed...
Blocked-Out Men. The lights were supposed to glow later that day on one John J. Huber, once an undercover man for the FBI, but he never showed up. Next day Huber called a news service from a Manhattan phone booth. He had "blacked out," he explained. "I don't know what I'm doing here. I do not remember a thing until 5 a.m. when I found myself wringing-wet, walking on Seventh Avenue." He was going away, he added, to "try to get back on my feet...