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When Miller gave over the billfold, containing $20, he was released. With the warning that if Miller made any noise he would be killed, the stranger disappeared up DeWolfe...
Sweetness & Light Fingers. In Los Angeles, a little old lady bustled up to S. J. Jelalian, threw her arms around him, cried: "You're the image of my long-lost son!", apologized for losing control, hurried away with Jelalian's billfold...
...Magic Billfold. "In our senior year," says one of Van Doren's college roommates, "Charlie used to have a recurring dream about a billfold in which there was a $20 bill, and when you took the bill away, there would be another one there." Charlie sought the magic billfold last November when a friend told him about the easy money on Tic-Tac-Dough, another Barry-Enright production. He looked so promising that the producers put him on Twenty One. But Charlie's dream has come true with some nightmarish side effects. "Here I am with all this...
...cast himself this time as a sort of Prohibition era Lord Jim with a growl machine, a cornet player in a honky-tonk who caves in to a protection racketeer (Edmond O'Brien) and has to keep running from his conscience with the racketeer riding on his billfold. At last he runs into Janet Leigh, a flapper with more visible flap than the censor generally allows, and he flips back to normal. Yet, at the fadeout, as the old meanie cops his bye-bye tablets, and the hero rides off unscathed on some of the ickiest two-beat ever...
With sure grip on the nation's billfold, Congress is using its free hand to give the Foreign Operations Administration an unpleasant slap. Dependent on Congress both for money and its existence, FOA is scheduled to go out of business this coming June. In spite of the Congressional decision, however, the National Security Council needs the FOA to prepare the nation's foreign assistance program, and has asked the agency to make plans for the next two years...