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Fitzwilly, the hero of this bit of family fodder, is a larcenous butler with a heart of pablum and a summa cum laude college degree. He keeps his daffy dowager boss (Edith Evans) in the chips by masterminding a ring of domestics who specialize in plundering New York department stores. When the old lady hires a pert new secretary (Barbara Feldon) with a suspicious nature, the wily Fitzwilly (Dick Van Dyke) has to scramble to bring off the big one-Gimbels on Christmas...
...from being a bad year for business. The U.S. continued to be prosperous; its economy, the abundance of which mankind holds in awe and envy, simply fell short of optimistic expectations. Western Europe experienced its slowest economic growth in a decade-but growth, however slow, remains growth. As William Butler, vice president of the Chase Manhattan Bank, puts it: "Never have so many had it so good and felt so badly about...
...movie is a bore. MacMurray dashes around his vast house conducting calisthenic Bible classes, honking at his ambulatory alligators, roughing up his guests with show-off fisticuffs, show-off opera arias, show-off opinions. Singer Tommy Steele as the young family butler does his frenetic best with body English and music-hall mugging to get things off dead center, and Lesley Ann Warren does her maidenly best as Daughter Cordelia having a romance with Angier Duke (John Davidson). But the only bright spots in this Philadelphia story are provided by the English elegance of Gladys Cooper and Greer Garson...
...back wages will be delivered in "a lump sum as soon as possible," John Butler, Harvard's chief negotiator, said. The percentages apply uniformly to the ten different wage scales included in the Labor and Maintenance groups...
Several months ago secret soundings began in the Butler area, near a cemetery and a swampland. The Butler yards will cost up to five times as much as the proposed Codman yards, MBTA officials estimate...