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King of the Black Market. In Chicago, Fulton Market buzzed with rumors about Pete Golas. Pete was paunchy (220 lb.), greying (52), scarfaced and vain. He refused to have his picture taken, as he considered a 15-year-old photograph (see cut) his best portrait. Until last fall, he was just a small-time peddler of livers and hearts. From dark meat to black meat was an easy step for Pete. He branched out grandly and mysteriously, bought control of a string of slaughterhouses from Omaha to Manhattan...
Despite some spectacular manifestations of support, French North Africa was not ready to fall into De Gaulle's arms. A visit now would divert the energies of generals absorbed in the climactic phase of the Tunisian campaign. Previously, and in vain, Catroux had pointed out these things to General de Gaulle. Higher and harsher authorities finally...
...short synopsis is given by the HDC release. "Dena Rosita, the lovely heroine, promises to wait for her finance, who must go abroad. She waits, preparing her trousseau for an immediate wedding. She waits 20 years in vain, the whole town pities her. But Rosita, in a magnificent last act, reveals her secret life, the happiness she has had in dreaming...
...award is given each year to men who display the qualities typified by Richard Glover Ames '34, and his brother, Henry Russell Ames '38, who were drowned in a vain attempt to save their father, washed overboard during a trans-Atlantic yacht race...
They looked in vain. From the North Africa of the U.S. and Britain, a great sickness seeped through the world. Disillusion struck the peoples of Occupied Europe. Shame struck the peoples of the U.S. and Britain. For the sickness, disillusion and shame, the U.S. was chiefly responsible. Allied policy in North Africa was chiefly American policy-a fact advertised to the world before the fruits of that policy ripened. Then it was all too clear that, in the first brush with the Nazi enemy, the U.S. had retreated from its professed high principles...