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Pickering's progress was smooth and steady. B.S., M.S., Ph.D.-he got all the requisite degrees. He stayed on in Pasadena to join the Caltech faculty, get married to a pretty Pomona girl named Muriel Bowler and conduct cosmic ray studies under Millikan. In 1944, when JPL missiles and rockets had become sophisticated enough to require a cargo of accurate telemetering equipment, Pickering was the inevitable choice to supervise the work; he was an acknowledged expert in the electronics art of long-distance measurement and control...
...several other plot strings become chronically entangled. Cooper's bride, Michele, played by a sensuous brunette named Sonja Ziemann, turns out to be a woman with a cloudy past. And before long there are intimations that poor old Cooper is also being victimized by an oil swindle. The bowler-hatted Terry-Thomas and Cooper's gangling American business partner (Alex Nicol) team up,_ Mutt-and-Jeff fashion, to pursue the viruses and the villains. This includes such high jinks as Terry-Thomas' impersonating a hearse driver and tooling off madly with the coffin of a Moslem diplomat...
...result was the famous "March on Rome." In reality, Mussolini arrived by train a day ahead, resplendent in black shirt, spats and a bowler. Then he called in his blackshirted squadristi, who arrived by suburban train and were permitted to parade. Mussolini posted himself at their head for the benefit of photographers recording the event for history. "What a character," said Donna Rachele Mussolini, his faithful, dowdy wife, when told of these heroic events...
...course, she's jes' fine in the rest of those numbers too. At Hernando's Hideaway, she gets deliciously and most raucously drunk; before that, with bowler, smock and tights, she's given us "Steam Heat" (Janet Mendelsohn and Charon Lee Cohen, the show's choreographer, assist her in that). Accoutered as she is she'd heat up any union...
...rearrange itself for every role he plays. Tall, diffident and no egoist, he is as disciplined as he is dedicated. Most extraordinary aspect of his genius is, in the words of Critic Tynan, "his power to enlarge a role until it fits him, as a hatter will stretch a bowler...