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...star of TV's long-running (four years) Highway Patrol series, tough-guy Actor Broderick Crawford, arrived in London on vacation, startled newshounds by disclosing that he no longer touches a steering wheel. Patrolman Crawford explained: "On California's coast highway, one time, I got my Jaguar XK-140 up to 120 m.p.h. before I was stopped at a roadblock. Ever since, it's become a game with police officers to pick me up. Now I have a chauffeur...
...they stalked off with four others to form Metco (Microwave Electronic Tube Co.) and compete with their former employer. Within nine days they had a plant in Salem, Mass., financing, firm contracts and a production schedule calling for June deliveries of microwave tubes. "Within a year," predicts Founder Richard Broderick, former Bomac treasurer, "we'll have 100 employees. And in three years, we'll be back on the highway...
Bold Venture, which was a radio vehicle for the late Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall, is a carefully glued blend of sex and speed. Where Highway Patrol's Broderick Crawford roars about in a squad car and Whirlybirds' Ken Toby and Craig Hill soar through the sky in a helicopter, Actor Dane Clark as Shannon plows through the waves in a 62-ft. sloop. Dockside waits his nubile ward, played by Joan Marshall, whom Writer David Friedkin describes as a "lovely, whimsical, gay, arrant broad in love with a virile guy-only he doesn't want...
...Stone (Julie, Cry Terror!), is a shipboard scare-show that will probably make a good many customers queasy-some because they cannot stand the sight of so much blood, others because they like their terror firmer. The story begins aboard a greasy old freighter when one of the hands (Broderick Crawford) decides that the world has too many people and he has too little money. He knows exactly how to solve both problems at once: murder everybody on board, then claim the ship as salvage. With the help of a misanthropic messmate, he actually makes a good start on this...
...thousands of viewers in the Los Angeles area, station KTTV's impromptu 90-minute crime show last week was better than the big networks' M Squad, Dragnet or Highway Patrol had ever been. Instead of Lee Marvin. Jack Webb or Broderick Crawford, they saw two real hooch-soaked hoods with six hostages as they held out in a tense siege by 150 real cops and FBI agents in an Inglewood dive just outside Los Angeles...