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...leftover hamburger. Prosecutors badgered him, accused him of covering up bribe offers. Among his managers was Killer Eddie Coco. But Rocky won most of his bouts. In the ring the old street fighter came back. One hot July night in 1947, he knocked out Tony Zale in a celebrated pier-six brawl and won the middleweight championship of the world...
...Cwiklinski sat through a palm-sweating grilling with his bosses and the dreaded U.B. (for Urzad Bezpieczenstwa), Poland's secret police.* On the return trip to New York, the Batory's crew and passengers were in turn grilled by U.S. Government agents, and the eventual loss of pier privileges forced the Poles to give up the transatlantic run. No Communist or proCommunist, Cwiklinski tried to coexist with the Polish satellite regime for the sake of his wife and two children. He gradually became a figurehead on his own ship, with all disciplinary matters handled by secret-police...
Aboard the French liner Ile de France at a Manhattan pier, France's retiring Ambassador to the U.S. Henri Bonnet, 66, whose charm and Gallic wit have entranced Washington for the past nine years, and Mme. Bonnet, a fixture on lists of the world's best-dressed women, were seen off for home amidst the popping of champagne corks. Just before sailing time, Diplomat Bonnet got a sisterly farewell kiss from a longtime family friend, glamorous Grandma Marlene Dietrich. Said he feelingly to his well-wishers: "I thank you for the happiest years in our lives...
...body of Christians with rabble-rousing and tricks; Paul Newman as Basil, a pagan silversmith who designs a frame for the cup; Virginia Mayo, the sorcerer's apprentice, who divides her time between dressing up the boss's act and running up Basil's metabolism; and Pier Angeli, a wistful, loving Christian who finally wins Basil for herself...
...deep religious feeling and incredible brutality could exist side by side. In her novel (a Book-of-the-Month Club selection), Author Oldenbourg has woven a huge and intricate tapestry of a medieval society so successfully that most people will be happy to look at it - and even hap pier never to have been part...