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...gentleman. He shares lodgings with a rickety, charming young man named Herbert Pocket (Alec Guinness),and learns, instead, to be a snob. As he helps his old criminal friend to escape arrest and rescues Miss Havisham's ward, the beautiful Estella (Valerie Hobson), from a psychological trap, the noble and weaker sides of Pip's nature so con-.tend that he emerges a true...
Midwife in Boots. The Molotov note was a victory for chunky, trap-jawed John Hodge, who had won at Guadalcanal and Okinawa victories more suited to his soldier's temperament. No diplomat, Hodge had made his mistakes in Korea. But what he lacked in subtlety and tact, Hodge made up in tenacity. He grasped the essentials of the Korean problem. Three months ago, he returned to Washington, steamed in & out of offices telling officials that if the Russians would not play ball, then the U.S. must organize its zone of Korea so effectively that, when the occupying armies pulled...
...Bratislava a fat, bullet-headed Roman Catholic priest walked to the gallows. On the scaffold, Dr. Josef Tiso, ex-president of the wartime Nazi puppet state of Slovakia, murmured a prayer and clutched a rosary. Seven minutes after the trap was sprung, the rosary fell from his lifeless hand...
...Harlem hermit; of asphyxiation, under a pile of debris ten feet from the spot where the body of his blind brother was discovered 17 days earlier (TIME, April 7); in Manhattan. Death came to the recluse, police decided, when he hit a tripwire to one of the booby traps he kept in his rotting mansion to trap thieves, causing a pile of hoarded junk to fall and smother...
...were predictable enough. Christian Democrat Premier Alcide de Gasperi spoke firmly, if not very eloquently, for the Lateran reaffirmation his party wanted: Christ's divinity was "the crucial question ... of our positivist age. . . ." Then he descended to pragmatism with an arithmetical statement that Togliatti later turned into a trap. Out of 45,526,750 Italians, said De Gasperi, "45,349,221 are Catholics...