Georgi Markov people in the inner circles". Georgi Markov was assassinated on a London street via a micro-engineered pellet containing ricin, fired into his leg from an umbrella wielded by someone associated with the Bulgarian Secret Service. It has been speculated that they asked the KGB for help. Georgi Markov was born on March 1, 1929, in Knyazhevo, a Sofia neighbourhood. In 1946, he graduated from the "Gymnasium" (high school) and began university studies in industrial chemistry. Initially, Markov worked as a chemical engineer and a teacher in a technical school. At the age of 19 years he became ill with tuberculosis
Waterloo Bridge (1940 film) in New York and shortly after in London to positive reviews. "It owed much to the dialogue of Robert E. Sherwood's original play, and to good, shrewd screen directing." The film is recognized by American Film Institute in these lists: According to MGM records the film earned $1,250,000 in the US and Canada and $1,217,000 elsewhere resulting in a profit of $491,000. "Waterloo Bridge" was dramatized as a half-hour radio play on two broadcasts of "The Screen Guild Theater", the first on January 12, 1941 with Brian Aherne and Joan Fontaine and the second on September 9, 1946 with Barbara