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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week Mikolajczyk, sporting a new mustache grown during his flight from Poland, was reunited with his family in the London suburb of Kenton. Of his own escape he would say little, except that he had worn an overcoat and shoes bought in Quebec during the war, horn-rimmed glasses and a squashy old hat-"to make me look American." His thoughts were more on his colleagues who, like him, had tried to squeeze through the Iron Curtain. Grim news reached his refuge; he alone had made good his escape. Czech police had nabbed seven of his followers. The Communist...
Clair has phrased his essay as a gentle caricature of a motion picture-more particularly, of the French motion picture as it was bequeathed to him by the pre-'20s pioneers. Man About Town's story line is one that the movies have worn to a smudge: Maurice Chevalier instructs a youngster (François Perier) in the Art of Love. Thereupon the youngster steals the oldster's girl (Marcelle Derrien). The parody is heightened by direction that reduces action almost to a puppet-like simplicity, and by a harsh lighting that gives actors and sets...
...picked up an easy $1,000. Big Red's owner, Pennsylvanian Sam Riddle, once refused a $1,000,000 offer for his wonder horse. Riddle retired him to stud in the prime of his career. "Improving the breed," now a worn-penny phrase spoken cynically around the tracks, had meaning in Man o' War's case. Only the choicest mares were bred to Man o' War-at $5,000 a try. The results were top quality, as with everything...
Three Sisters & a Sergeant. In line with announcements that street clothes were to be worn at the ceremony, London's jewelers were busy converting tiaras into street-wear clips and brooches, London's tailors were peering into their darkest shelves because of a shortage of cashmere for striped trousering. On all sides would-be wedding guests were maneuvering for one of the precious invitations being addressed by a corps of Palace secretaries. Palace authorities refused to name the 2,000-odd included on the list. A few omissions were known: Elizabeth's uncle, the Duke of Windsor...
...paid in U.S. greenbacks, because his country had no paper currency.* That was the heritage of bankruptcy and economic dependence on the U.S. Now the Dominican Republic is strong, its external debt paid off (since July), its internal debt minuscule. Last week, Dominican banks started taking in time-worn green-inked engravings of Washington and Lincoln, replacing them with crisp Dominican peso notes bearing the likeness of local heroes...