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Ceiling Zero. In Pittsfield, Me., when his small plane went into a spin, Pilot Albert F. Mace, 37, plunged through the roof of his house and into the attic, stepped out of the wreckage slightly bruised...
...tart old Mrs. Sharpe (Marjorie Fielding) and her attractive daughter (Dulcie Gray). The affair at The Franchise is fomented by a teen-age girl (Ann Stephens), who falsely, but with plausible evidence, accuses the well-mannered Sharpes of kidnaping her, beating her, and holding her prisoner in their attic as a rather unusual method of solving their servant problem.* In the face of mounting community hostility, the perplexing case is finally cracked by a young lawyer (Michael Denison), who has taken an interest in the proceedings-as well as in Miss Sharpe...
...much. He likes to go to dances occasionally (he has no steady girl). He brushes off all discussion of his triumphs with an embarrassed grin. At his white stucco home in Tulare, just a good javelin throw from the local high school, he still shares with brother Jimmy an attic bedroom, a cluttered place littered with Bob's medical specimens (he once wanted to be a doctor like his father), his model airplanes, and a sign he once rescued from a rubbish heap: "A winner never quits and a quitter never wins...
...fortnight ago, unidentified saboteurs bunglingly attempted to dynamite Guatemalan power plants. A few days later, three plainclothesmen from the civil guard knocked on the door of the Quiñónez house in Guatemala City. After searching the place from attic to cellar, they asked Mario, 24, and his brother Edgar, 20, to go with them. Mario asked to see the warrants for their arrest. Instead of warrants, the policemen showed their guns. The brothers went along...
...thing that no book thus far published by Exposition is apt to achieve. Though house editors and freelance polishers work over the sometimes "shapeless" manuscripts that come in, many of them still emerge as embarrassingly bad books and most of them might better have been carried to the attic...