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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...debt. Before he could finish his explanation Army officers whisked him away to forbidding old Castle William on Governor's Island, where he was given a pair of olive-drab dungarees to replace his double-breasted suit. For the second time in his life Grover Cleveland Bergdoll (as Prisoner 289) wore a uniform-the prison uniform-of the U. S. Army...
Sitting Pretty. Edouard Daladier is what the French call an homme sérieux. A terrific worker, he leads a modest family life, living with his sister (he is a widower) and his two schoolboy sons. Even as Minister of National Defense he used frequently to bicycle to his office (now he sometimes rides a horse in the Bois de Boulogne). He does not even occupy the Premier's office; he prefers to work in the Ministry of War, of which he is still head...
...Rated by famed Scientist Sir Arthur Keith "in the front rank of European archeologists," Miss Garrod unearthed a Stone Age infant's skull in a cave at Gibraltar, last year turned up 50,000-year-old remains of paleolithic man in the Balkans, has spent much of her life tenting on famed excavations in Palestine and Kurdistan. She was director of archeology and anthropology at Newnham College, a woman's college at Cambridge, before her appointment to the University's Disney Professorship of Archeology...
Inside Story is a Chicago-made Tuesday nighter over NBC-Blue which dramatizes true-life hair raisers. Last week one scheduled tale-teller was ex-Convicf Pat Reed, a counterfeiter who finished his five-year stretch in Alcatraz last October. Pat Reed was to say: 1) that Convicts Ralph Roe and Theodore Cole had made a clean getaway from Alcatraz in 1937, had not drowned, as the G-men reported; and 2) that a mass escape is now being planned, involving the seizure of a strategic control tower...
...Stolen Life (Orion Productions-Paramount release). Elisabeth Bergner is a tiny, talented Viennese Jewess of 38, of whom German critics were once proud. For five years she has been making movies in English without strongly impressing U. S. audiences. Her English film debut in Catherine the Great was unfortunately shadowed in the U. S. by Marlene Dietrich's ballyhooed The Scarlet Empress, and her most successful picture, Escape Me Never (in which she also played her only Broadway role), was too easy for her to prove much. In Stolen Life, Actress Bergner gets. and takes, her first real chance...