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Undeterred, the Maharajah ordered the palace's electricity shut off. When that failed, he ordered truckloads of manure dumped into the drinking wells. At last he gathered together a crew of farm hands and laborers and carried the princes (together with a few stray concubines) bodily out of their palace. Displaying their first real spirit in years, the evacuated princes pitched tents on the roadside and settled in for a long stay. "All in all," said one of them, "it's not much worse than being in the jungles on a tiger shoot...
...British premiere of her circus-set movie Trapeze (TIME. June 11), Italy's Cinemactress Gina Lollobrigida busted forth in London in the company of Sir Laurence Olivier, who unaccountably let his gaze stray to other things...
...less about Harvard's football record than about its policy in regard to "Communist" Faculty members, to work actively on the schools or scholarship committee of his local Club, to consider just what educational principles he is buying when he writes a check to his Class Fund, and to stray from the Hasty Pudding bar to a New Lecture Hall symposium at least once during a Reunion in Cambridge...
...piano has its anxious note. Some 50 winters have weathered Cagney hard, and he begins to wonder if his filly won't "stray off" when the "grass . . . gets a little too thin around here." She says she won't, but then they quarrel about the "hangin' fever" that sets in whenever Cagney sees a rustler. The girl runs away with a stable boy (Don Dubbins), but she soon comes back-it's such fun to bang on that piano. "Don't worry," Cagney comforts the boy, "a fellow doesn't die from his first...
...cowardly lump of jelly he is. In the meantime even the old soldiers die. Dorn and Kern are blasted to shapeless pulp by artillery shells. Schnurrbart is mistakenly murdered by a homosexual German officer settling a private score. It is a quiet day on the eastern front when a stray Russian shell catches Steiner. "Why are you bawling?" he asks the only old platoon member left to mourn him. "You're the last noncom. You mustn't bawl...