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...Escape from Fort Bravo-hit hard. And for Stalag, in which he played a scrounging U.S. sergeant in a German prison camp, Holden won an Oscar as the year's best actor. He deserved it. The boy next door had become the type in the back room, with rat-grey skin and rat-quick eyes and a furtive softness in the way he moved; for the first time, Bill had almost managed to lose himself in a part. After seeing the picture, one fan who came in late remarked: "That man was wonderful-and you know, he looks...
...bartender; another, "Bulldog," a sahib type. "Number Four" was the ship's purser, a one-legged mulatto. "Sea-Wyf" (mermaid) was a handsome young woman of mystery, and much of the story concerns her saintly attempts to impose decency on the three men, although thirst, storms, submarines and rat-infested atolls worked to turn them into cowards and murderers...
...Harvard buildings are safely sealed in the University's orderly archives, things are different a few miles down the river. The Massachusetts State Archives' collection rests now in boxes and on the floor of a leaky, unventilated, rodent-haunted room up in the attic of the State House. The rat-food includes the original 1629 Massachusetts Bay Colony Charter, many letters and documents relating to the Constitutional Convention, and thousands of other items...
...Wildfire fights his way to the championship of the Bowery before he is overmatched with a bigger dog, and left on the floor half dead. A kindly groom (Edmund Gwenn) takes him home to a rich man's stables, and thereafter, in due process of fate, the wharf rat whips his haughty old man at the big dog show, redeems his poor old mother from poverty and disgrace, and finds romance with the richest female in town. A dog's life? Maybe not, but it's a thoroughly entertaining one, and moviegoers of whatever age will...
Life with Mother. In Hamburg, Germany, Gerda Thimm, 22, was sentenced to six years in prison for mistreating her husband by 1) dropping acid into his ears while he slept, 2) attempting to slip a razor-blade sliver under his eyelid, 3) putting rat poison...