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Slave of the Senses. Pola's first starring role was in Love and Passion (or Slave of the Senses'), which she wrote, directed, and produced herself with a secondhand movie camera in her own Warsaw apartment. Pola claims that the picture so interested Max Reinhardt that he brought her to Germany in 1917. She achieved stardom overnight in Carmen and Passion (with Emil Jannings...
...floated down from the night sky with a flight of tough U.S. paratroops. It was his second invasion jump (the first: near Tabessa, Algeria, last November). He crashed through an olive tree before he hit the ground, cracking a rib, wrenching a knee, skinning his knuckles. His tired old secondhand portable typewriter got to earth in a parachute bundle. Thompson found it, hid it behind a stone wall. But by the time the paratroops had taken Vittoria, someone had stolen his portable...
...showcases, bought secondhand before World War I, are broken, his shelves filled with bullet-dented Japanese helmets and other war mementos sent him by some 70 ex-customers now in the services (he spends an hour a day writing to them). The floor is covered with candy wrappers, bottle tops, memos he writes to himself and periodically dumps out of his pockets. ("We sweep out, the joint on Thursday, but last Thursday we missed.") The war bonds he has purchased are tucked between the keys of an old cash register, the drawer of which is filled with small camera parts...
Gypsy Rose Lee (The G-String Murders) bought for $250 a vast, secondhand bed. It will help equip her new 30-room town house in Manhattan. In the White House it was occupied by President Benjamin Harrison...
...face, Salter's dispatch was one more item in the flood of secondhand reports from Ankara and Istanbul, where anything can be heard and very little can be believed. But for whatever it was worth, it simply recited a series of untenable hopes. It constituted one more bit of evidence that Adolf Hitler cannot avoid catastrophe. He can only strive to postpone...