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...transferred to Detroit to the same job his father-in-law held some 30 years ago. Thomson has five grandchildren; and in preparation for visits from the older ones, he maintains in his Westfield home a slot machine of the sort classically known as a "one-armed bandit." He even furnishes the kids with dimes to try their luck at the monster. Explains he: "I want to teach them that no matter what they do, they're going to lose money when they gamble...
...Women. "The bandit Tunga Khan won't dare to molest us-we're American citizens," says a frail missionary lady, reeling off exposition at a godforsaken outpost in northern China in the year 1935. Of course, most of the dreadful events thus predicted duly come to pass, and all that remains to arouse sympathy is the plight of some rather interesting actresses, trapped on MGM's chintzy Chinese sound stage with absurd situations, hoked-up direction and dialogue like wet firecrackers...
...Veteran Director John Ford apparently believes that the trick of making an eastern is to change the road signs and trade his Indians for Mongolian invaders. The white man's burden falls, while he lasts, to Eddie Albert as an expectant father who berates himself just before the bandit attack with: "What kind of man was I, to get my wife pregnant at a time like this?" As the wife, Betty Field runs the risk of menopausal pregnancy, while the other girls crank up enough trauma for several melodramas. Mission Leader Margaret Leighton is a sexually repressed religious...
William Gordan Jr., an employee of Design Research, Inc., 57 Brattle St., was intercepted by a lone bandit on his way to deposit the company money at the Cambridge Trust Company. He said the robber stuck a blunt instrument in his back at Holyoke St. and Mass Ave. and walked him down to Mt. Auburn St. toward Holyoke Center...
When Gordan reached Mass Ave. he looked around and the bandit had vanished. Cambridge police are investigating the robbery but had no information available yesterday...