Word: nazi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Colonel. A notably comic and often touching study in the art of survival, demonstrated by Danny Kaye as a Polish refugee who keeps one jump ahead of the invading Nazi armies in France by using his brains and his heart...
...Colonel. Danny Kaye's warmest and one of his funniest, about a gentle, ingenious refugee escaping one jump ahead (and occasionally one jump behind) the Nazi invasion of France...
...other industrialists and scientists without whose enthusiastic cooperation World War II would never have been possible . . . The President is, in fact, a skillful apologist for the German people." Cassandra was unmoved by Heuss's contribution of ?5,000 ($14,000) for windows for the rebuilt cathedral of Nazi-blitzed Coventry: "We want no apologetic tips on our national tombs . . . All I want of them is to wait for a generation to pass before they come sidling up to us saying it was all just a big mistake...
...hero (Trevor Howard) is a dentist with a thing about elephants. After long confinement in a Nazi concentration camp, he goes to Africa to be near the great beasts-"the image of freedom and space"-and is horrified to see "this gigantic, clumsy natural splendor" being slaughtered to extinction "just to keep the world supplied with billiard balls and paper knives." He circulates a petition to outlaw the killing of elephants, and soon has made himself the standing joke of French Equatorial Africa. Only two people sign his petition: a drunk (Errol Flynn) and a prostitute (Juliette Greco). A missionary...
Playhouse 90 (CBS, 9:30-11 p.m.). Germany's famed Maria Schell (TIME, Dec. 30) makes her American TV debut in Word from a Sealed-Off Box, a play about four prisoners in Nazi-occupied Holland; the story is from the book The Walls Came Tumbling Down, by Henriette Roosenburg. Also in the cast: Jean Pierre Aumont, Betsy von Furstenberg...