Word: superably
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Enfants," originally a super-epie, has been cut to about half its original length for American release. Many of the cut scencs were as good as or better than the ones that are left. The chopping does not, however, prevent the American version of "Les Enfants" from being one of the most beautiful and most fascinating and most perfect films ever produced...
Lucky Luciano, deported super-pimp of Manhattan, was having cop trouble again. Palermo (Sicily) police picked him up and quizzed him for three days about his Maffia connections. Then they let him go again till next time...
...vision, impenetrable skin and muscle, Superman has been no great shakes in a courtroom. After a falling out with their publishers a year ago, Siegel & Shuster filed a super-suit for $5,000,000. Among other things they demanded the rights to their creation. (Like most comic-strippers they had signed away all rights.) As the suit dragged on, the publishers lured other artists to draw Superman, although the strip still carried Siegel's & Shuster's names. Last week, in Manhattan, Newspaper Broker Albert Zugsmith arranged a settlement: Siegel & Shuster got $100,000, and National Comics Publications...
...Americans, Inc., he spent a year in the Milwaukee Jewish Children's home, now lives with foster parents. At Shorewood High School, he plays football, boxes, is an orator of parts. But in the timbre of his voice there was more than rhetoric: "We have everything here . . . super highways, aspirin, fine hospitals, penicillin, atomic energy, bubble gum, Buck Rogers ... All these, plus the necessities of life. But the greatest of all is the temple of liberty...
...Bogotá, delegates had finally founded an Organization of American States, to function regionally within the U.N. setup, and had drawn up its constitution. Its new council, replacing the Pan American Union governing board, would not have the power of the U.N.'s Security Council. Screaming "super state," Argentina had squelched that move, and decisions, large & small, would still be made in 21 different chancelleries...