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...American Mercury and the only permanent member of the reporters' panel, often gets a tenacious grip on an evasive guest and shakes damaging admissions from him. Other members of the shifting, four-man panel come from the top drawer of the U.S. press, and many a bigwig has winced under the volley of questions from such reporters as the New York Times's "Scotty" Reston, Raymond Brandt of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, U.P.'s Merriman Smith, and Columnists Marquis Childs and Drew Pearson...
...local mill-owning Klan bigwig (Hugh Sanders) is pictured as a cynical racketeer fattening on the dues and fees of an ignorant rank & file. In the movie's best performance, Actor Cochran, bullying and toadying by turn, creates a picture of an ugly, slack-witted Klansman. Storm Warning hits hard at these characters. By knowing when to feint as well as when to punch, the picture loses no excitement, gains a chance to make its message connect where it will do the most good...
...coony, but anonymous Democratic bigwig made a personal three-state poll on Senate races, returned to Washington convinced that Democrat Benton would lose in Connecticut, that Democrat Lehman would win in New York. "I just don't know what to think about Ohio...
Died. Benjamin Franklin Stapleton, 80, five times mayor of Denver (1923-47, with a four-year lapse from 1931 to 1935) and Colorado Democratic bigwig; of a heart attack; in Denver...
Married. Lowell Thomas Jr., 26, photographer-son of the radio commentator; and Mary Taylor Pryor, 22, daughter of Samuel F. Pryor, Pan American World Airways bigwig and onetime Republican National Committeeman; in Greenwich, Conn...