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...Eleanor Parker), a fortune-hunting legal secretary charged with telling a client (Fred MacMurray) that he has inherited $2,000,000, decides to make a favorable impression on the heir apparent before spilling the good news. She impresses him as a lunatic, disrupts his wedding, woos him in a boxcar, wins him with the connivance of a poor but dishonest psychiatrist (Richard Carlson). By the time MacMurray is convinced that the inheritance is actually his, the money has flown. His problem, and an interminably coy movie, could have been mercifully forestalled by a phone call in the first reel...
...Sullivan $125,000 a year (compared with his $35,000 annual income from the News), and beginning this week the sponsor, Lincoln-Mercury, will pay more than $2,225,000 to keep the show on for its fourth year of television. Sullivan, who is a little dizzied by these boxcar numbers, remembers that the talent on his first program, including Rodgers & Hammerstein, who worked for nothing, cost only $270. He says: "We couldn't get the same people today for less than...
...Reds had won the round; the strike had compelled Arbenz to show his hand. "We consider this a complete victory," said the rail union secretary. "The handwriting was on the wall of the boxcar," said a businessman. "Arbenz will follow Arévalo down the left side of the road...
Guatemala's 6,000 rail workers went out on strike. In all the republic not a boxcar moved; 2,000,000 bananas rotted on the tracks. Passengers stranded as long as 40 hours in strike-halted trains finally had to beg for food in mountain hamlets and hitchhike back into the cities. Cattle died in stock trains marooned on main lines and sidings...
...Lieut. Colonel Wes McPheron. With McPheron, armchair listeners have crouched in a forward observation post watching a tank-artillery duel and stood helpless in an aid station listening to the moans of a soldier crippled by a mortar burst. Last month they leaped with him out of a Flying Boxcar over Munsan, plunged down to earth with paratroopers of the Army's 187th Regimental Combat Team. (As McPheron plunged into the prop blast, listeners heard him count, "1,000 . . . 2,000 . . . 3,000" then, as the chute cracked open: "Phew! It takes the wind...