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...SHOP ON MAIN STREET. This Czech drama hurls the question of universal guilt into a tranquil, Nazi-occupied Slovakian village in 1942. The case concerns a little Aryan nobody (Josef Kroner) who is put in charge of the business, and the fate of a shinlngly innocent old Jewish shopkeeper (Ida Kaminska...
Czech Performer Jirí Suchý, 34, is Communism's top show-biz personality. His singing (4,000,000-record sales), writing (his musical, Jonas, is still packing them in after four years), and disk jockeying (600 songs that he wrote himself) have made Suchý the first "kroner millionaire" entertainer on the Czech list. His $63,000 income is 25 times the national average, and Suchý's latest book is a summation of Eastern
...SHOP ON MAIN STREET. Set in Nazi-controlled Slovakia in 1942, this perfectly played Czech masterpiece reduces an awesome tragedy to human size. Its seriocomic hero is a well-meaning Aryan nonentity (Josef Kroner) who seizes the button shop owned by a feeble, trusting old Jewess (Ida Kaminska) and finds himself a partner in her fate...
...extreme idea, lately popularized by Economist Edward Bernstein, an influential White House adviser, is to have small but powerful groups of countries generate new international currencies of their own. Bernstein proposed that nations in the Group of Ten create a money-backed by their own francs, marks, yen and kroner-that would gradually supplement pounds and dollars in world trade. He figures that sponsor countries could expand this supply of new money by about $1 billion a year...
...monkeys also have to work," read the caption beneath a picture in B.T., imported from Hamburg, that showed some presumably Aryan monkeys disporting in a cornfield. A Wehrmacht officer who demanded a story in Tidende on his regimental band was politely informed that he would have to pay 10 kroner for the "advertisement...