Word: polisher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...producers of Five Fingers have added to this true-fantastic tale a number of fanciful touches that detract from the unadorned facts. The picture gives Cicero (James Mason) a beautiful, double-crossing Polish countess (Danielle Darrieux) as his partner in spying and smooching, and has him ending up in a luxurious South American hideout. The film also drags in a few standard cinematic suspense props, e.g., a charwoman accidentally sets off the alarm which Cicero has disconnected while rifling the embassy safe...
...tradition carried on by two other sons, Artist Bancel LaFarge and Architect Christopher Grant LaFarge. Two grandsons: Author Christopher LaFarge (Laughing Boy), Author and Indian Expert Oliver LaFarge. *French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Russian, Polish, Czech, Slovak, Danish, Dutch and Esperanto...
...Washington last week, a special House committee resumed the investigation it began last fall into the wartime massacre of more than 4,000 Polish officers in Katyn Forest near Smolensk, Russia (TIME, Nov. 26). The issue: Was Katyn just another Nazi atrocity, or did the Russians do it and then dupe the Western world into blaming the common enemy...
...testified that he suspected the Russians of rigging the evidence when they took him to view the mass graves at Katyn in 1944. An exPolish diplomat said that his exile government in London asked Moscow fruitlessly more than 50 times about the fate of the missing officers. Two former Polish soldiers testified that officers were winnowed systematically from Soviet prison camps in 1939 and 1940, never to be heard of again...
...third Polish army veteran offered even graver evidence. He testified that he watched from hiding in a nearby tree in October 1939, when 200 Polish officers were slaughtered by Red army soldiers at Katyn. It was night time, he said, and the victims were led two by two to the edge of a huge ditch illuminated by floodlights. "First," he continued, "they tied the [victim's] hands together and then tilted the head back, and they packed sawdust into the victim's mouth. If he showed signs of collapsing while in their hands, they just kicked him into...