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Married. Stephanie Pell, 20, Paris-born daughter of U.S. diplomat Robert Thompson Pell (now in Paris as SHAEF assistant political officer); and one Roger Déchame, 23, a sailor in the French Navy, whom she met while christening the U.S.S. Ticonderoga, named for the historic Revolutionary fort on the Pell's upstate New York estate; in Manhattan's French Huguenot Church of Saint-Esprit...
...Crimes. Herbert Claiborne Pell lost his job as U.S. member of the United Nations War Crimes Commission. Alleged reason: no money had been appropriated for his work. He also suspected another reason: the State Department did not back his view that Hitler & Co. could legally be tried for crimes committed against their own people (including Jews). The State Department denied this charge, but the fate of the Commission, was in doubt because Sir Cecil Hurst, British Commissioner, had already resigned after a similar disagreement with his Government...
...philosophical pauses, such as clogged the pell-mell action of Anthony Adverse, slow down Captain from Castile. It has all the trappings of romantic fiction: moonlight trysts, carousals, desperate galloping, clashing swords, a gallows scene, the education of an innocent girl in the arts of love by her worldly-wise duenna...
Meeting in Yenan. A rush phone call had summoned Yenan's Big Four-Communist Party Secretary Mao Tse-tung, Generals Chou Enlai, Chu Teh and Yeh Chien-ying. They sped to the airport in Mao's private car (a converted ambulance), ran pell-mell across the field to greet their American guest. As he had with the Russians in 1942, 1943 and 1944, Pat Hurley hailed them like long-lost friends...
...terrific explosion. Salomon and Royle went buzz-bomb hunting with a sound recording van for three nights before they got their perfect recording. So realistic was their sound track that, when it was played at Warner's studio and later at the Ministry of Information, building employes ran pell-mell for shelter...