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...landing parties, finally reduced the rebel strongholds. The dead and wounded were carted off in truckloads. Harried by army bombers, the rebel warships set out to sea, finally returned and surrendered. Eight miles away in Lima, meanwhile, armed civilians had seized the telephone exchange, had tried to booby-trap it before being driven...
...something of the same grand-manner that was to be so successful in his later film "Beauty and the Beast." But, unlike its successor, "The Eternal Return" asks the audience to accept its fairy tale as readily as if it were in today's headlines: "IRATE MATE SPRINGS LOVE TRAP--Wife and Lover Found Souped-up on Love Potion...
Delayed Action. In Angers, France, Jean Pocret, who had been mildly annoyed for the past four years by a strange lump in his mattress, finally ripped it open to find an unexploded German booby-trap mine...
...Headed by Harvard's emeritus Ralph Barton Perry, and including Princeton's emeritus Christian Gauss, Columbia's Henry Steele Commager, Henry Seidel Canby, 100-odd others. *In 1944 he campaigned unsuccessfully for state senator (his strategy: "Mostly to keep my trap shut...
...forecourt in the wake of his stinging service. For a moment or two, the crowd thought they might be seeing a tennis match. But by the seventh game, Parker had figured out the Sidwell serve, and was methodically running the Australian ragged with lobs to the base line and trap shots just over the net. Parker won without cracking a smile or dropping...