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...Voldemar Ludig, an Estonian lawyer-businessman, was arrested in December 1940 and accused of being a British spy. The police interrogated him daily for six weeks. Before each session, the jailers softened him up by making him spend two or three hours in a tiny concrete cell in which he could not sit down, stand upright or lie down. "The box," said Ludig, "was illuminated by a very powerful bulb. [It gave] you a headache, and you were kind of blind after...
Anita Colby, née Counihan, was 30 last August. She has never married, and the chances are that she never will. This is obviously not for lack of looks. Years ago her good friend Quentin Reynolds gave her a permanent nickname : The Face. Her good friend Voldemar Vetluguin, a one time editor of Redbook, has called it "the most beautiful face this side of Paradise." (He added: "And the sharpest tongue this side of Hell.") And until she got tired of the work, this seraphic property made her the highest-paid model in America...
...idea was born when M.G.M.'s Voldemar Vetluguin persuaded M.G.M.'s Louis B. Mayer that books with a million readers are better movie material than Broadway plays seen by only...
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