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...story is set in the South of France in the midst of what Author Brown called "the champagne campaign" of 1944. His heroes, a slum-bunny lieutenant (Frank Sinatra) and a rich-kid sergeant (Tony Curtis), fight the Germans all week in the hills, fight the booze all weekend on the Riviera. Then Sinatra meets a pretty girl (Natalie Wood) and falls in love with her, even though her mother (Leora Dana), a U.S. expatriate, has informed him that the girl's father was a Negro...
...With the sergeant it is another story. He makes love to the heroine, promises to marry her, but at the last minute casually breaks it off. "Mrs. Blair," he tells the mother without turning a hair, "I've been engaged to some girls, and not engaged to some girls, if you know what I mean. And some of them weren't the kind I'd 've taken to the country club. But with the exception of your daughter, all of them were white." The heroine tries to commit suicide; the lieutenant spends the rest...
Missileman Wernher von Broun, 46, who next year undergoes the accolade normally bestowed on wealthy songwriters, dead Presidents and western gun toters-a movie based on his life-had a cheery hello in St. Louis (see EDUCATION) for an old acquaintance: Richard Fein, a sergeant in the U.S. Army squad to which the rocket expert surrendered in Germany in 1945. "You look different," said Fein. Patting his middle, Banquet Circuit Victim von Braun gamely cracked: "I'm losing the battle of the bulge...
...Witness. Because Ernst was openly working for Trujillo, many witnesses greeted him with suspicious silence. Among them: Air Force Sergeant Harold French, an old friend of Murphy's, who helped install the Beechcraft's extra gas tanks and was with Murphy at Zahns Airport until noon on the fatal day. Murphy told French about the trip in detail, and French told the FBI ("Gerry said that gasoline would be available to him at Monte Cristi in 5-gal. cans...
...Sergeant Kolodzi the war has reached a harrowing personal climax. He is a soldier of the Wehrmacht, fighting on his home ground where his mother and his girl still live, where his father, killed by partisans, is buried. Kolodzi knows the war is finished, that the smart thing to do is to desert, get his mother and girl to safety before the Russians drive into his home town. But Kolodzi is also a first-rate soldier with a feeling of loyalty to his fellows. When he hears the opening roar of the massive Russian artillery barrage, he leaves the arms...