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Producers Benjamin and Lawrence Rothman have pointedly avoided the customary chamber-of-horrors approach in their documentary history of the Polish Jews. There are no closeups of bulldozers pushing bodies into mass graves, no shots of the prisoners of Treblinka and Auschwitz. The narra tor, Theodore Bikel, never raises his voice a decibel above conversational level. Instead, with a rare collection of stills and film clips, the movie quietly tells the history of Jewish life in Poland, a history that took a millennium to evolve and four years to be obliterated...
...business suit, a loosely knotted dark tie, black bump-toed shoes, glasses with light grey plastic rims, a grey Homburg hat. He pushed open the right-hand door to the Executive offices (the left is always locked), walked over the black-and-white checkered linoleum, around the Philippine red narra table and back to the President's office. He gave his hat to Pat McKenna, ancient doorguard, and walked...
...after work the President took the opportunity of inspecting for the first time a gift sent him eight months ago. It was a carved table 10½ ft. in diameter from Filipino Emilio Aguinaldo. Its highly polished top was made of a single piece of hardwood, Philippine red narra. Around its rim were twelve drawers, for the President, Vice President and each member of the Cabinet. Unfortunately, in rebuilding the White House offices the doorway of the Cabinet room was not made large enough to admit the table. Last week with difficulty it was maneuvered into the public lobby...
Fortunately there are other staircases in the Latjeran. Cardinal Gasparri, Signor Mussolini and their suites entered not all kneeling, but militantly erect. They met and faced each other across a massive table, 16 feet long and 4 feet wide, the top hewn from a single log of deep red narra wood from the Philippines. Present at the signing were no guests, no newspapermen, no servants, and only two photographers who scuttled out as soon as they had snapped the awesome scene. The door was then locked and Papal Attorney Pacelli read solemnly the text of the Italo-Papal agreement which...
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