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...instance," reported the paper, "ladies' overcoats manufactured by the Naprijed factory that have no pockets, men's coats in several shades, blue sport shirts with black sleeves, hats with spots that could not be removed . . . Thousands of padlocks put on the market by a factory in Pola can be opened with the same key. Forks produced by the Vjeceslav Holjevac factory in Karlovac were too sharp, but the knives were too blunt . . . The Uzor toy factory in Zagreb manufactured dolls dressed completely in black, while dolls made by the Jadran factory had crooked legs and their arms were...
Polish-born Pola Negri, 51, heavy-lidded vamp of the silent screen, who first came to the U.S. in 1922, appeared last week in a Los Angeles federal court to take her final oath as a U.S. citizen. She was now busy, she said, writing her autobiography to be called, As Much As I Dare...
...report from Trieste revealed that Yugoslavia's Marshal Tito, about to take a motor launch from Pola to Fasana on the Adriatic, waited on the dock while advance men made a security check. Sure enough, they found and heaved overboard a time bomb which had been strategically hidden under the marshal's seat...
Before a crowd of 40,000 in the port city of Pola this week, Marshall Tito delivered his most important general policy statement of the year. He said that the Yugoslav-Greek frontier will be "gradually closed...
Tito also revealed that Yugoslavia has been seeking loans totaling $250 million from the World Bank and other Western sources. The U.S. and Britain have demanded the closing of the Greek frontier as a prior condition to granting such loans. At Pola, Tito explained: "We are not selling our conscience and our souls." Nevertheless, it looked as if somebody was selling something-on the installment plan...