Word: pimpernel
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...Italy's top resistance heroes in the war. Toward the end of the war, when the Germans were still holding on in the north, Sogno smuggled so many refugees out and so many agents in that he became known as Italy's Scarlet Pimpernel. But he saw clearly that the Communists were trying to get control of Italy's liberation movement, not for Italy's good but for their own power. He developed an admiration for their skill and an abiding hatred of their purposes...
Peter K. Grimes had neither the cloak, the dagger nor the devil-may-care air of a scarlet pimpernel. A Boston travel agent, Harvardman Grimes, 32, married a German war widow who had come to the U.S. to study at Columbia University. His wife Irmgard had left her two young daughters by her first marriage in East Germany with her father, but she and Peter quickly agreed that the family should be brought together...
...next victorious nation is France, a little too slick and suave to defeat honest, persevering Anglo Saxons, as the Scarlet Pimpernel and countless Napoleonic pictures show. But they always beat the rest of Europe, and delight in thrashing picturesque Arabs. After the French, there is no really powerful nation always assured of the victory our favor brings. Generally, though, an underdog people or nation can be counted on to lick the oppressor, especially if an itinerant American adventurer falls in love with the rebel leader's daughter (played by Patricia Medina...
Adventures of the Scarlet Pimpernel (Wed. 10 p.m., NBC). A new series based on the Baroness Orczy novel, recorded in Britain...
...Tabori's scene is Budapest in 1930; his atmosphere that of an incipient police state; his chief characters a small boy (Brandon de Wilde) and his father (Lee J. Cobb). The boy inhabits a mental world swarming with such heroes as Sherlock Holmes, Hoot Gibson and the Scarlet pimpernel. But his chief hero is his father, a schoolmaster who has been blacklisted for unorthodox opinions, and who has lost his backbone along with...