Word: poison
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week the 52-year-old general, a Prussian army veteran, marched into the U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Department office in Nürnberg to make a paradoxical confession. It was he who had given the face-saving poison to the man whom he had accused...
...Zelewski explained, he had kept the three phials of cyanide which all SS commanders regularly carried, for use in case of capture. Because he was a witness, not a prisoner, guards had not searched him. When Göring, who occupied the opposite cell, asked Bach-Zelewski for some poison, the general obliged. One day, as they met in the corridor, Bach-Zelewski slipped the phial to Göring under cover of a handshake. It was hidden inside a bar of G.I. laundry soap...
...June of 1940, Barbara joined Actor-Producer Alexander Kirkland's summer stock at Clinton, Conn, as an apprentice. Between walk-on appearances and rounds of scene painting, she studied the Stanislavsky acting technique with Coach Lee Strasberg. "We'd be teapots, poison ivy and other things, for practice," says Barbara, "and I just loved it." She played bits with Ethel Barrymore, Sinclair Lewis and other visiting stars, and at the end of the season she even got a fat part of her own-Amy in Little Women. Says Barbara: "I got damn good notices...
...University of Pennsylvania, loser of only three of its last 44 Ivy League football games, "is being shunned like the poison itch by other Ivy League colleges . . . Cornell is the only Ivy institution that has not omitted the Red and Blue powerhouse from its 1953 card." One reason for Penn's success: state legislators, with an eye for a good football team, make 675 scholarship nominations a year...
...Raven," which shares the bill, is a French mystery about a poison-pen campaign that sets a small French village into turmoil. It contains glimpses of some of the nastiest people ever assembled on one movie lot, and that includes the hero, Dr. German, who is played by Pierre Fresnay. The movie's favorite acting device is the pregnant pause, which is woefully overworked. Moviegoers who have seen "The Thirteenth Letter" will find that it is the same movie, scene for scene. They will also find that the American version is just as convincingly acted and considerably easier...