Word: agente
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Earnest Effort. The prosecutors for the State of Mississippi-Gerald Chatham, due soon to retire for ill health, and Robert Smith, a Marine Corps hero and former FBI agent-made an earnest and honest effort to build their case at what can be assumed to be great social cost to themselves. They got no help from Tallahatchie's Sheriff H. C. Strider, a cotton planter (1,500 acres), who insisted that Till had been whisked away alive. "This whole thing was rigged," he said...
...painful tale are a Pulitzer Prize playwright, an oh-so-Marilyn-Monroe-like Hollywood star, and a plain young man of almost no attributes who attains great success in love and literature through a pact with the devil--in the guise, as one might have guessed, of his Hollywood agent. Axelrod's fumbling attempt to give the thing a measure of significance in the last act adds considerably to the burden of the performers, who have a hard enough time making anything of their lines during the first two-thirds of the play...
Jayne Mansfield and Martin Gabel as the star and the infernal agent do well enough with their parts, which offer nothing more than opportunities for fairly clever characterization. But Orson Bean, the youthful bargainer for success, is unable even to meet the demands of his role except at moments when startled exclamations and muggins are called for. Others in the cast are equal to their sorry assignments, but nothing more...
Married. Barbara Ann Scott, 27, Canada's pert, blonde 1948 Olympic figure-skating champion, star of the Hollywood Ice Revue (1952-55); and Tommy King, 31, press agent for Chicago Stadium Sports Enterprises; she for the first time, he for the second; in Toronto, Canada...
Deal's Off. In Beckley, W. Va., Moonshiner Major Lilly hailed a truck belonging to another home whisky brewer, wondered aloud if the driver's boss would be interested in a profitable business merger, was arrested on the spot by the driver, a Treasury agent, who was taking the truck to town to impound...