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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fabulous world which Oslo still called new. Driven by the instincts common to migrants of all time in quest of adventure or security or freedom (or simply of wider skies and unfamiliar faces), he sailed toward the west. The hard but hospitable shores received him and he vanished, unknown and untraced, in the fertile chaos of a country's growth. No one ever knew whether he found what he sought. He didn't write home...
...Dark the Night (Columbia) is a low-budget whodunit that almost succeeds in making the big time. In spite of a wobbly script and a cast of unknown players, Director Joseph H. Lewis has turned out a neat little job. It is more entertaining than most of the better-advertised movies it will get paired with on double-feature bills...
Radioactive Tracer. The most spectacular test used radioactivity. A little of the unknown synthetic which the chemists hoped was penicillin was made up with radioactive sulphur built into its molecule. Mixed with natural penicillin, it was put through recrystallizations and chemical transformations...
With the help of the American Women's Voluntary Services, more than 100,000 Friendship Boxes had already been shipped overseas. Many a U.S. schoolkid, wrestling with his first letter to a new, unknown friend, discovered that much of what he took for granted in his life looked wonderful written down ("We have mountains . . . fertile valleys . . . beautiful gardens"). When the thank-you notes arrived, he felt even luckier. Sample: "I am not writing so fine, because I have been 31 years in a camp. Well, let us not talk about that...
...does not realize how thin his life has become until he stumbles on two of his servants making love and lustily gorging their bellies on the leftovers from one of his dinner parties. The Suitcase is about a traveling salesman who finds himself in a hotel room with an unknown woman's overnight case -which he unpacks, and loses himself in a wistful fantasy of romantic love. The Moon Watch is about a simple Moroccan Negro, who, when transplanted to Vienna as a valet by a well-meaning professor of Arabic, naturally assumes that his master is the magic...