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...Communist factory and looks after her war-ravaged grandparents. She has an illegitimate son by a dead war hero. Her son lives with his prosperous grandparents in the Western zone. Anna kidnaps the little boy from his grandparents, but she loses him in transport; when a Western policeman (Eric Schuman) risks his job to return the child, the two fall hopelessly in a love without hope. Horst Buchholz, as a young Russian soldier, makes a tragically ineffective attempt to help the lovers. The moral, hammered in to the sound of guns and fighting police dogs, is clear. Germany must...
Police are still looking for the two noon-agers who jumped the "Cliffie in the Radcliffe yard near Barnard Hall. The two attackers quickly field when her creams attracted two policeman...
Like a Surgeon. Although an accompanist should be a partner, he is also, says Ulanowsky, likely to function as "part policeman and part nursemaid." (But, adds Soprano Erika Koth cryptically: "An accompanist is no lover.") Even as incendiary a singer as Maria Callas scrupulously follows the advice of her pianist, Italy's Antonio Tonini, in questions of interpretation. "Tonini pleases me," says she, "because he is an implacable torturer who makes me repeat the same phrase 20 or more times. He has always been for me like an expert surgeon who digs around in one's innards until...
Tilting with Bobbies. By English standards, Hulme was a hick. He came from a Staffordshire farm family, though his father relished playing the Victorian county squire. Hulme affected to despise the Establishment though he adopted its manner. Once, when a policeman objected to his making water in a Soho Square gutter, Hulme haughtily asked: "Do you know you are addressing a member of the middle classes?" The bobby apologized...
Another tilt with the law proved more serious. Hulme was sent down from Cambridge for punching a policeman. He left town astride a coffin in an undergraduate mock funeral. Disowned by his family, he spent eight months roughing it across Canada. The vast sky and the flat horizon-reaching grasslands left him with a numbing sense of oppression, "the fright of the mind before the unknown" that he came to believe "created not only the first gods, but also the first...