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...yarn was an allegory of conflicting Big Power attitudes in Eastern Europe. The Anglo-Americans contended that in the Russian-dominated countries one kind of dictatorship had replaced another. The Russians answered that if their Balkan regimes fell, the men who had welcomed the Nazis would creep back into power, just as "Duce" had reappeared on Trieste's rock...
Return Visit. Bob Eichelberger will set up his headquarters in bomb-smashed Tokyo. He had visited the Jap capital before, and on one occasion had started a picturesque yarn...
They could recall two major incidents: 1) French newspapers once charged that Allied flyers had spared I. G. Farben fac tories (some U.S. papers had also printed it); 2) a sensational yarn that U.S. troops destroyed supplies which French civilians might have used (a story which the French were slow to correct when proved wrong). Aside from these, the French press - as best exemplified by the Paris dailies -has been almost timid in discussing its great western ally. The further fact is that the old, rowdy prewar Paris press is either dead or sound asleep...
...PONT DE NEMOURS & Co. Nylon and Nylon yarn for stockings, Neoprene synthetic rubber, most chemical products and plastic materials can be switched to civilian use as soon as the cancellation telegrams reach Wilmington...
...Firebrand of Florence (music by Kurt Weill; book by Edwin Justus Mayer & Ira Gershwin; produced by Max Gordon) sets to music Edwin Justus Mayer's 20-year-old comedy about Benvenuto Cellini, The Firebrand. Though the music itself proves an asset, it has to consort with a yarn that time has made paunchy and libretto-writing made puerile. The brawling mankiller, the dashing lady-killer, the impudent, artistic scapegallows Benvenuto (Earl Wrightson) becomes just another musicomedy swashbuckler; the plot and gags are such spinach that the whole thing turns out to be a musical poached eggs Florentine...