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...headlines, reserved for Briand, instead blazoned the news: Ivar Kreuger, the grammar-school dullard from Kalmar, Sweden, who had grown up into the world match king, had killed himself...
Nobody knew-at first. Then everybody knew. Kreuger was one of the greatest swindlers of all time...
...will help or betray anyone to keep herself safe; a handsome anti-fascist fugitive (Helmut Dantine) who gets help from her, and kills her when he can no longer trust her; a scientist (Peter Lorre) demoralized by Nazi torture; a stool pigeon (Faye Emerson) and an aviator (Kurt Kreuger) who discovers that Miss Emerson's lover is a Jew. Best scene: General Massey, interrupted at his shaving, trying to accept fatal news with dignity when his face is covered with lather. Best performance: that of Helene Thimig, wife of the late Max Reinhardt, as a heartbroken Jewish housewife...
Credit for the suave showmanship went to Conductor Karl Kreuger, 50, U.S.-born, Vienna-trained, one of the four top native-born maestros in the U.S. (the others: Leonard Bernstein, Werner Janssen, Alfred Wallenstein). Maestro Kreuger had snatched up Detroit's baton late in 1943, whipped his 110 players into shape in record time. Carnegie Hall rewarded his energy with a favorable verdict: Detroit's music is as lush, efficient, unsubtle and breath-taking as Detroit's glamor-drawings of the postwar family sedan...
...Ivar Kreuger, who shot himself in his Paris apartment twelve years ago, was second to no man in his ability to parlay a bunch of match companies into an international stockmarket bubble. But Fairburn, a slower, solider worker, was the man who could almost always beat Kreuger at the match game-at least in the U.S. market, which is all that Mr. Fairburn ever cared much about. In sundry Kreuger forays into Diamond's bailiwick, Fairburn had a way of selling him U.S. match interests at a fancy price, but ending up with Diamond still in the saddle...