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...Zagreb's sun-washed Yelachich Square townspeople used to haggle with bright-costumed peasants who had spread out their wares. From sidewalk cafés men would banter with the pretty peasant girls. One day last week the shadow of hated Major Helm, Gestapo chief for the puppet state of Croatia, swaggered in the sun across the Square. Somewhere a rifle's muzzle nosed from a window. A shot clapped. Gestapo Chief Helm flopped down on his shadow, dead. Enraged and terrified, his bodyguard swung their pistols on the crowd, hurled hand grenades among the tables...
...World War II Zagreb had been the center of Croat resistance to Yugoslavia's dominant Serbs. Croats had clamored for autonomy, had got a measure of it in 1939. They got a different kind from the Nazis, who set up a separate Croat state. Ante Pavelich became its puppet premier and its army grew to one-and-a half divisions of quisling Croatian troops, plus enough Italian regulars and Black Shirts to control it. But, as Ante Pavelich soon found out, this was not what some Croats wanted. He dared not go out in the streets without a shield...
...scrawny Baltic lands of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. Even the so far comparatively well-behaved Danes began "accidentally" pushing German officers into Copenhagen's canals. So bitterly were the Poles still resisting that, despite fresh slaughters each week, the occupying authorities had tried to set up a Polish puppet government to keep order. When no puppets could be found, the Germans released their rage in the volleys of firing squads. In Norway the invaders confiscated 80% of the herring catch. Living now on herring and seed potatoes, the Norwegians were told by Vidkun Quisling that next winter they will...
...movement. The deceptively simple opening melody, suggestive of peace, work, hope, is interrupted by the theme of war, "senseless, implacable and brutal." For this martial theme Shostakovich resorts to a musical trick: the violins, tapping the backs of their bows, introduce a tune that might have come from a puppet show. This tiny drumming, at first almost inaudible, mounts and swells, is repeated twelve times in a continuous twelve-minute crescendo. The theme is not developed but simply grows in volume like Ravel's Boléro; it is succeeded by a slow melodic passage that suggests a chant...
Artistically, Superman shorts are the movie cartoon at its worst. Superman looks and acts like a wooden puppet. So do all his playmates. There is little that his creators-the old Fleischer Studios (now Famous Studios, Inc.) at Miami, Fla.-can do to improve their hero-even King Disney can't animate human beings satisfactorily. But they did manage to give him a new voice recently. His old one wasn't manly enough. Now it booms...