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...fine Austrian hand which is responsible for the picture's most memorable moments--Birnam's organized, stumbling search down New York's Third Avenue in search of an open pawn shop, the nightmarish scene of delirium in Bellevue's alcholic ward, Birnam's whirling crash down a whole flight of stairs...
This attitude was not confined to U.S. scientists. Wrote the science editor of London's News Chronicle: "The cataclysm of Hiroshima has shocked the scientists into revolt. . . . Atomic energy [is] being used now as a pawn of power politics. They [the scientists] do not disclaim responsibility; they insist upon taking it. . . . They want a positive voice in public affairs...
...championships of Russia's national indoor game some 700,000 competed in 1936. The game: chess. This week, with short-wave radio bridging Moscow and Manhattan, the Russians tried their hand at international competition.-A queen's pawn was nudged ahead two squares...
...Prize. In the European power game Trieste was more than a pawn to be attached to Italy or Yugoslavia. It had long been an important link between central Europe and the Mediterranean. Now it lay at the southwestern end of Russia's new area of power, 1,700 miles across Europe from the northernmost end in Norway's Finnmark. Most of the 250,000 Triestinos think of themselves as Italian, but the Slav tide-Slovenes to the north, Croats to the east-washes into the city's suburbs. To the northeast lies D'Annunzio...
Nazi spies and an assortment of French and Danish patriots prowl, around with strange grins on their faces through exotic restaurants, pawn shops, gambling dens, and little French fishing towns, Hedy, at her lovliest, is the most mysterious character of all. But since Paul Henreld, a loyal Dutchman, falls in love with her, it's easy to guess how the luscious Lamarr ends...