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...most popular of Czechoslovak films, and it should be. Somehow director Miri Menzel manages to maintain a witty ironic tone throughout the picture, even though its subject is the German occupation during World War II. Menzel, who both wrote and directed the film, centers events around a quiet young lad (Vaclav Neckar) who is at a perceptive, uneasy stage in his adolescence. He works at a railway station--the "closely watched trains" were the German munitions trains which had special priority...
...story matched in truth Hollywood's fantasy about itself: an immigrant lad from Rumania, upward mobility via New York's City College, a scholarship to an acting academy, a theater apprenticeship, a break in the movies. A stage portrayal of a gangster led to the role of Rico in Little Caesar (1930). It was only Robinson's fourth picture-100 more were to come-but he realized perfectly the character of the brutal, power-crazed mobster. He also created a stereotype for himself and a durable genre for Hollywood...
Continental Grain Co. of Manhattan. Continental is headed by French-born Michel Fribourg, 59, a shrewd, aggressive executive, whose family founded the firm in Belgium more than 150 years ago. Cargill was started a little over a century ago by W.W. Cargill, a Wisconsin farm lad. The company's present chairman, Irwin E. Kelm, has the distinction of being the first chief from outside the Cargill and MacMillan related families, who still hold 90% of the stock...
...early 19th century Belgium, Adolphe Sax was struck on the head by a brick. The accident-prone lad also swallowed a needle, fell down a flight of stairs, toppled onto a burning stove, and accidentally drank some sulfuric acid. When he grew up, he invented the saxophone...
While the amnesic lad marked time by doing odd jobs for the Salvation Army and playing honky-tonk piano, distraught mothers of runaways called Key West by the hundreds, claiming him as their own. Finally the real parents showed up, identifying the boy as Kim Basil Kadas, 16, of East Chicago, Ind. Kim recognized his mother and departed for home with his parents, leaving those anguished mothers to go on searching countless police stations and claiming sandy-haired, blue-eyed teenage boys as their lost sons...