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Over 80 astute College men have already penetrated the supposedly thick veil of secrecy surrounding the identity of the Harvard Dramatic Club's "Miss Juno," alias Theodore P. Allegretti '47, HDC announced yesterday as they closed the contest four days ahead of the original deadline, naming J. Jay Hughes '48 lucky recipient of a complete evening with the unmasked maid...
Igor Gouzenko, the Russian who ripped the veil from Soviet espionage in Canada, made last week what might be his final public appearance under his own name. The occasion was the trial in Montreal of Dr. Raymond Boyer, onetime Government explosives expert who is charged with conspiring to give secret information to Russia. While seven Mounties guarded the courtroom, Gouzenko testified briefly that Boyer's name had been on the list of Canadians who were helping the Russians. Then, his job done, he turned in the witness box, bowed to the Bench, walked to a door at the rear...
...annual poll taken by Film Daily, a most reliable motion-picture trade publication, lists the selections of 559 critics and commentators throughout the country. Only one foreign film (Henry V) was chosen for the "ten best" list, and only three importations (Caesar and Cleopatra, The Seventh Veil, Blithe Spirit) were cited on the honor roll of 51 pictures...
...Ultimate Responsibility. It was Harry Truman who had to make the final, terrible decision.* But "the ultimate responsibility for the recommendation to the President rested upon me, and I have no desire to veil...
...only foreign film to squeeze into the top 60, barely made it (No. 56)-below Two Guys from Milwaukee but above Canyon Passage. Henry V ($700,000 with only ten engagements) was the first real dent, Variety noted, that Shakespeare ever made on the U.S. box office. The Seventh Veil ($2 million) was the "first foreign production to honestly break into the consciousness of the average U.S. filmgoer...