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Richard Dozier is most appealing as the reporter-playwright Bert. In an unostentatious role, Dozier stands out for his smooth, clean-cut, and earnest performance; and he does not overdo his drunk scene as would most young student actors...
Belle herself was less interested in money than she was in fun. She was delighted when Bert Swift "began to spend some of his pork fat on me," but she was always ready to go racing off to Arabia with only one maid and 85 hats to dynamite for turquoise in the desert, or to make a casual bet that she could go around the world on ?5. She won that bet. On the trip she dined with Lord Kitchener in a dahabeah on the Nile, made an expedition by elephant through the Ceylonese jungle, married an Italian count...
...Admiral Hyman Rickover, 59 (see Diplomacy), who only a few months before casually told another committee: "I myself don't get pressured by outsiders, but they do go higher up and get pressure put on me that way." This time, Committee Chairman F. (for Felix) Edward Hébert of Louisiana wanted Rickover to name some names. Rickover parried and philosophized. Some Navy men, said he, are "impressed with outside experts, especially those with 'Dr.' in front of their names." Then there is the problem of "the naiveté of most retired officers" who go to work...
...week's end, Hébert's committee, satisfied so far that the uses of retired officers' influence had not gone beyond proper bounds, put off further hearings on the subject till another time. Said Hébert: "Some people have said this committee will be a bust if we don't crucify somebody. To those people, it is a bust already...
...fact that the majority of the choices for the first installment of Cavalcade last week turned out to be foreign bothered Moore not at all. So, between the nasal cartoon witticisms of Bert and Harry Piel and the prizewinning Calo Cat & Dog Food commercial (TIME, Oct. 6), Californians were treated to a half-hour of sales pitches for products they may never get a chance to buy. A sampling...