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...Witness (Eagle Lion Classics) sends a brassy U.S. defense lawyer to England on a tough murder case, and then watches him stumble through a baffling maze of provincial customs and courtroom procedure. The plot is predictable, but Producer Joan Harrison and Director-Star Robert Montgomery wring some wry chuckles from their bull-in-the-china-shop situation, and keep the story moving at a lively clip...
With the rest of his 19-year sentence for collaboration wiped out by amnesties, ailing, angry-eyed ex-Field Marshal Rodolfo Graziani, 68, stepped out of Rome's Montecelios Military Hospital into a hail of newspaper invective. From his villa east of Rome, the white-maned old "Lion of Neghelli" retorted to a columnist who had attacked him in the daily Il Paese. "I spit on your face a thousand times," he wrote. "You are a disgusting coward and I am sure you are very dirty...
...armada from a second-floor office at Offutt Base, a converted World War II aircraft plant set peacefully among the rolling cornfields just west of the Missouri River. He leaves his door wide open and is usually "at home" to any brasshat or buck private-somewhat as a lion is at home on meatless Tuesday. He sits immobile behind his polished walnut desk, black-maned, broad-shouldered and heavy-faced, his lips set as straight as the five rows of service ribbons on his tan uniform jacket...
Died. Arturo Alessandri Palma, 81, president of the Chilean Senate, twice (1920-25; 1932-38) President of Chile; in Santiago. A leader of Chile's Liberal Party, a skilled old hand at political give & take, Alessandri (called El Leon-the lion) pulled the strings in many a political deal, helped put President Gabriel Gonzalez Videla in office...
...defense bill provides for no such industrial czars as WPB's Donald M. Nelson in World War II.-Power will be placed in the hands of regular Government departments, and the lion's share of authority over U.S. industry will probably go to Commerce Secretary Charles Sawyer. The life & death power of industrial allocations and priorities, granted the President in the bill, are expected to be delegated to Sawyer; and he is already busy setting up a National Production Authority, headed by International Telephone & Telegraph Corp.'s President William H. Harrison (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...