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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...every Soviet foreign mission is attached a Soviet secret cop. Part of his job is to see that Soviet representatives put and keep behind them all varieties of the foreign bourgeois Satan. Between temptations and spies, Soviet diplomats sometimes get into serious jams of a kind unknown in the foreign services of non-Soviet countries...
...sensitive young man, Bernard Meddow, fell in love with her, attached himself to her like a pathetic puppy, and all she could offer him was a mild pity. For how could she tell this conventional young Englishman that she was already secretly married to a German whose whereabouts were unknown? Meddow, Jane and her husband all suffered because of the inevitable hurts of human dependence; each was an innocent victim of the other's needs. And so, suggests Green, are all other human beings who bind themselves in the chains of human relationships...
...Bruin freshman squad took the measure of the Tech yearlings by a 40-25 count before the vacation, but is an unknown quantity as far as real competition goes...
Louis B. Mayer was anxious to sign him up for a seven-year contract. Darryl Zanuck was eager to trust him with the leading role in a $3,000,000 production (Keys of the Kingdom), regardless of the fact that Peck was unknown and unwilling even to make a screen test. David Selznick, who now claims to have recognized Pecks talent from the first, was also in there nibbling (characteristically, Selznick eventually walked away with the lion's share). There is a touch of more than Hollywood's habitual fantasy in these frantic negotiations for the services...
...idea was not original with Dr. Brown. Others have conjectured that a good-sized planet may once have revolved in the orbit (between Mars and Jupiter) now cluttered with little asteroids. When the planet broke up (for an unknown reason), the bigger chunks became asteroids; some of the smaller remains stampeded around the solar system as maverick meteors...