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...long time after he left the hospital, few suspected the tryst he kept in his comfortable, $50,000 English-style home in The Bronx. He read voluminously, kept an eye on politics, wrote his weekly opinionated column in the newspaper PM. But last month he warned friends that he would not live much longer. Last week he fell into a coma, slept deeply for four days, rousing only once to drink a little orange juice and to speak a few words with his wife, Marie, and his two adopted children, Jean, 18 and Eric...
...Tryst with Destiny. Thus dedicated, India's rulers turned to the secular business of the evening. At 11 o'clock they gathered in the Constituent Assembly Hall, ablaze with the colors of India's new tricolor flag-orange, white and green. Nehru made an inspired speech: "Long years ago we made a tryst with destiny, and now the time comes when we shall redeem our pledge. . . .At the stroke of midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom...
...denied, by the picture's pseudo-happy ending. Beauteous Miss Lamarr, rich, middleaged, married, still very desirable, comes to town on business and has a rendezvous with Pulham. Ancient yearnings stir under his stuffed shirt-in spite of the curt, hard-boiled way she interrupts their tryst to tell off a recalcitrant customer by telephone. An hour later his wife, who suspects him of feeling a little liverish, half-kittenishly, half-remorsefully entices him away to a weekend in the Berkshires...
What was in the letter? What had been said at that mystic tryst off the rock-bound Coast of Somewhere? While the whole world cupped its ear, the Ministry of Information permitted correspondents to cable that His Britannic Majesty's Prime Minister had refused an option on 600 of the long, three-shilling (60?) Havanas he loves...
What he meant was that the documents planted in her luggage ought to succeed in trapping a ring of Nazi spies operating in Lisbon. They not only trap the spies but also ruin the loving couple's tryst. Whereupon, Miss Carroll and Mr. MacMurray, with the entire British Navy serving as shotgun, take off for the U.S. and marriage...