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Rebecca (United Artists). From beyond the grave dead Rebecca de Winter dominates the lives of her husband and his second wife as Manderley, the de Winters' rambling Tudor stronghold, dominates the misty Cornish coast. Beyond there is always the sea to which Manderley's weird housekeeper, Mrs. Danvers, once listens as if to a sound nobody else can hear...
...predaceous glitter. Ouida Bergère (nee Ida Berger) is chubby, red-headed Mrs. Basil Rathbone. Once something of a scriptress, for seven years she was head of Paramount's scenario department. Now, with her tall, dark, talented, professionally sinister, personally amiable cinemactor husband she inhabits an overstuffed stronghold in Hollywood's fashionable Bel Air quarter. There she contrives her parties. They are said to begin as a fulmination of her blood, a bounding along the veins, which eventually detonates in something pyrotechnic, exotic, ingenious and rare. At their most grandiose, they combine the best elements of annual...
Maintaining Princeton's reputation as a Republican stronghold, 61 per cent of Old Nassau's sons feel that Roosevelt should not run for a third term, "despite the present international tension," the Sovereign reports, adding "in politics, as Princeton goes, so goes the nation--the opposite direction...
Stiffened by a Jaeger Battalion from Germany (Finns who had joined the German Army), Mannerheim moved on Tampere, the Reds' northern stronghold. Although he had been promised more help from Germany (German troops this time), his reinforcements failed to arrive on schedule and he laid siege to Tampere alone. Helped by lack of discipline among the Reds, he took his time, encircled the city, waited for food to run low. When the Reds were thoroughly disorganized he stormed the city, took 10,000 prisoners...
Ugly smears of unfavorable publicity seem to be Harvard's inevitable lot as a result of the Browder affair. This time it will be the liberal press to start up aghast at a "suppression of free speech" by the nation's ancient stronghold of academic liberalism. The mere fact that Browder has been denied the use of a University platform will be enough for most earnest advocates of civil rights. Others of liberal persuasion will see in this a part of the current Dies-ignited red-baiting campaign. The total effect is another black eye for Harvard--and Harvard undergraduates...