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Mars Attacks the World (Universal). Abbreviated version of last year's serial Flash Gordon, based on the comic strip and featuring Larry ("Buster") Crabbe, re-released to take advantage of the uproar about Actor Orson Welles's War of the Worlds broadcast last fortnight...
...Commissioner of Investigation. Picked for it was a plump young Brooklyn lawyer, William B. Herlands, 32 to Lawyer Dewey's 36 and equally diligent, who had worked with Tom Dewey in the U.S. Attorney's office and later worked for him as a municipal racket buster. Judging Manhattan well taken care of when Tom Dewey was elected county district attorney, Mayor LaGuardia ordered Brooklynite Herlands over Brooklyn Bridge into his own borough, the city's most populous (2,792,000), long reputed shady politically. Last week Commissioner Herlands produced some Dewey-like results...
Kings County (Brooklyn) has for district attorney no racket buster but a dapper, grey-haired Democratic politician, William Francis Xavier Geoghan (Ghee-gan). When Commissioner Heriands began probing into District Attorney Geoghan's protracted investigation of Brooklyn's fur racket, he grew mightily suspicious, started an investigation of his own. Last fortnight the two investigations clashed over an habitual jailbird named Isidore Juffe. Mr. Juffe told the Herlands office that he had ''paid plenty" to keep out of jail in Brooklyn. District Attorney Geoghan said he had been at liberty as a stool pigeon, promptly clapped...
This posed a pretty problem for campaigning Democratic Governor Lehman. With Racket Buster Dewey, his Republican opponent, grinning down from an anticorruption platform, Mr. Lehman had to step fast. He also had to step delicately, because although he had twice before superseded troublesome Democrat Geoghan with special prosecutors, he refused to remove him from office at the request of a special grand jury two years ago. Last week, after hearing both Mr. Geoghan and Mr. Herlands present their cases, Governor Lehman announced that Mr. Geoghan would be superseded again, delayed naming a special prosecutor to investigate Mr. Geoghan and other...
Into the cold waters of San Francisco Bay last week went Blackie and Buster Olds, at the same time but from different points. Trainer Roberts trailed behind Blackie, hanging on to a cord attached to his tail. When old Blackie had finished his industrious swim, not only had he beaten Buster Olds but also had come within two minutes and 31 seconds of beating the record...