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...erroneous opinion of Hollywood shared by so many." There was no romance, she said. Her ride with Agent Lang was a business conference and they had simply used the car to escape the jangling telephones in his office. The sorry affair was simply the result of Wan-ger's business troubles: "I hope that Walter will not be blamed too much. He has been very unhappy and upset for many months because of money worries...
Harry Truman, wan and weary, throttled his calendar back to idling speed last week as the hour grew closer for his departure for Key West, Fla. and five weeks' vacation. He delivered his speech on world disarmament before the television cameras, bade formal farewell to India's Ambassador Madame Pandit (who is going home to stand for Parliament), and rambled and reminisced his way through three days' worth of pleasant ceremonial chores...
...threat of this competition, NHK has decided to brighten up its own program. This week the 500 could tune in animated cartoons as well as politicians. Said one wan government official: "We have tried to keep our television programs dignified and moral. Now it looks as if we may have to find ourselves a Hopalong Cassidy-san. Maybe even, a Dagmar...
Eventually we learn that Cotten is on his way to operate on a Nationalist general (Chung), but then he is kidnapped by a bandit general (Wan) and held as hostage for Wan's son (Wang or 'Young Wan'). As an added complication, Mrs. Wan is out to kill her husband in revenge for the murder of another son (Fang). At any point it's impossible to tell the Nationalists from the bandits, or the Fangs from the Yangs; apparently Joseph Cotten can't tell either, for the shoots them all indiscriminately as the picture ends...
...London Daily Mirror. He had a marked talent for big-name-dropping, and for catching rides in official delegation cars. He made himself popular-particularly with the delegation from Siam. Weyman had let it be known that in World War II he personally rescued Siam's Prince Wan Waithayakon from a Japanese prison...