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Just before 6 p.m., a man in a business suit strode briskly into the lobby and headed for a telephone booth. The Russian went into the adjoining booth. The American dialed a number; the Russian answered a ring. After a brief conversation, both men hung up and casually walked out of the building several paces apart. About a block away, they came closer together, finally met and started talking. At that point, the agents closed in and arrested both of them...
...Magnificent Ambersions. Orson Welles' second film, a worthy sequel to the toughest of all acts to follow, Citizen Kane. The film is loosely based on Booth Tarkington's novel, and this is one of its faults, for it matches Tarkington's rambling and disjointed style. Technically, however, it is once again vintage Welles, replete with deep-focus and up-from-the-floor, down-from-the-ceiling camera angles. The old Mercury Theatre gang is there, Joseph Cotton, Anne Baster, and Roy Collins, but the film cries out for the presence of the master himself. This film is an example...
...celebrated Martha Mitchell weapon-the telephone. At 10:30 a.m. last Tuesday, TIME Washington Correspondent Bonnie Angelo received a call from a woman who identified herself as "Martha Mitchell." The caller apparently was a wily impersonator. She claimed to be in Washington with John Mitchell and phoning from a booth. Airplane noises could be heard on the line as she spoke. Earlier she had phoned Washington Post Managing Editor Howard Simons, and later she would call Washington Star-News Editor Newbold Noyes. In a familiar Martha-like diatribe, she declared that "Magruder, Dean, everybody at the White House...
...Second City alumni, Jack Burns and Avery Schreiber, have released an album called The Watergate Comedy Hour with a blueprint of the infamous building on the back cover. One sketch has Nixon and John Mitchell in secret conversation in a telephone booth. Says Nixon, "I knew nothing about the entire incident, and last year you told me you knew nothing about the entire incident. Now one of us is full of the old crapola...
Shortly after midnight, McCord was called by "an unidentified individual" who directed him to the same phone booth. When he arrived at the booth, the stranger read him this message...