Word: shelleys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. James Shelley Hamilton, 69, composer of the famed college ballad Lord Jeffrey Amherst, and pioneer Hollywood scriptwriter (The Perils of Pauline); of uremic poisoning; in Rutland...
...Born. To Shelley Winters, 29, cinema "bad girl" (A Place in the Sun, The Great Gatsby), and Vittorio Gassman, 32, Italian actor of stage (Hamlet) and screen (Bitter Rice): their first child (his second), a daughter; in Hollywood. Name: Vittoria Gina. Weight...
...Shelley, Yeo-Thomas committed a series of exploits that have made him a legend in his own lifetime, a classic case of heroism under the rose. In The White Rabbit, the case is related by British Novelist Bruce (Father Malachy's Miracle) Marshall in the sharp, quick, vivid style of a battle report...
...haben Shelley!" screamed the Gestapo agents, and as they threw their prisoner into a police car, began to smash their fists into his face. The treatment continued at Gestapo headquarters; it was refined to a point where Author Marshall drops the subject. To his own amazement, and to the complete confusion of the Gestapo, Yeo-Thomas did not once break down. When he felt himself near collapse, he tried to throw himself out of a window, but one of the torturers caught his legs and hauled him back...
...constant torture -and Yeo-Thomas was sent to Fresnes Prison. Condemned to death, he was spared at the last moment; one of his friends in the Resistance had traced him down, and offered the Gestapo officer in charge of his case 4,000,000 francs to lose the Shelley file. Yeo-Thomas was shipped to Germany as a common criminal...