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Italy's Pier Angeli, a slender, childlike girl of 18, plays a war bride with no makeup or fancy hairdo, and nothing of what Hollywood knows as sex appeal. Her lean, pretty face radiates something much rarer in Hollywood leading ladies: a lucid innocence through which emotions flow without let or artifice...
Teresa marks a creditable debut for its producer, Arthur M. Loew, president of Loew's International and son of the founder of Loew's Inc. (which owns M-G-M). For Pier Angeli (real name: Anna Maria Pierangeli), the picture means overnight stardom and a five-year M-G-M contract that will give her a chance to hold...
...grey Navy transport in Yokohama, a bugler sounded taps. On the pier, another bugler echoed him. Fifty pressed steel caskets containing the bodies of U.S. fighting men killed in Korea* were loaded on to the ship, which slid out to sea under grey skies...
...Force was the first to buck the U.O.E.F. successfully. In 1949 it insisted that workers unloading cargoes for Clark Field should be paid direct, not by the capataces. This year the government dealt the U.O.E.F. its second blow. It let the pier haulage contract to Delgado Bros., who signed up Associated Workers' Union (A.W.U.) labor and began paying the workers direct...
...Senator. Among Hogan's influential friends was British-born Francis ("Paco") Gispert, secretary-manager of the Associated Steamship Lines, which has a membership of 46 shipping firms and four stevedoring companies. Gispert helped Hogan by putting up a pay office in the pier area to pay checkers, who, with stevedores and watchmen, are still controlled by the U.O.E.F. When the U.O.E.F. blacklisted the pay office, Gispert took the case to court, won it early last month. In the meantime he had been threatened, his home had been broken into, he had been beaten up, and his personal bodyguard...