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...keeps the picture going. Unexpectedly discharged from the Navy, the sailor turns up grinning at the door before his wife has even made the bed in their new apartment. To complicate matters, there are Janitor Eddie ("Rochester") Anderson, who operates the apartment with frenetic care; an English-language-butchering Rumanian siren (Audrey Totter); a grave young pot tycoon named Freddie Potts (Hume Cronyn') ; and a rival potter (Reginald Owen...
Some of the situations are tried, true and a little tired. But the Rumanian siren, speaking sonorously in a participial dialect of her own, is a fresh creation; and Hume Cronyn's Freddie Potts might be something straight out of the early Booth Tarkington. Slim Robert Walker is wholly likable as the husband. June Allyson is a model little bride, especially when she sidles up to her man with an icebox tray in her hand and says with a happy sigh, "Our first ice cubes...
...Royal Academy of Science of Belgium has elected Pitirim A. Sorokin, professor of Sociology and widely known author, to a foreign membership in the class of the political and moral sciences in a recent meeting. Sorokin is also a member of Rumanian and Czechoslovak academies...
...Bucharest, Andrica had put a notice in several Rumanian papers that he was anxious to meet relatives and friends of Cleveland people. That started a forlorn parade to his room at the Athenee Palace Hotel. In a fortnight he plodded through 675 interviews, and the pattern was the same as in Belgrade and Prague, Nürnberg and Trieste. Wept hollow-cheeked Bertha Lutwak: "Tell my uncle in Cincinnati I am in great need." Attorney Dumitru Ellenes had a sad message for his brother-in-law: "Our family was deported to Austria; only our sister Helen returned alive...
...Premier thawed to the Clark Kerr personality. In the summer months the sporty, informal Scot startled the Russians by dictating reports in the Embassy backyard, stripped to the waist. But they understood and admired his blend of closemouthed diplomacy and forthright candor. In the recent negotiations over broadening the Rumanian Government, Clark Kerr successfully leaped into one of his rare rages as the only means of bringing to heel the Soviet's strong-arm man, Andrei Vishinsky...