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Nominees for president are; Nancy Fisher, Sidney Foster, Cynthia Green. Clair Martin, Mary Ellen Beinert, and Ruth Sudhoff; for vice-president: Joanne Gilbert, Nancy MePartlin, and Nancy Mardirosian; for secretary; Joanne Eeard,, Lois Herr, and Sylvia smith; for treasurer; Ellen Clough, Myrl Duncan, and Betty Anne Ellers...
Last year St. Clair McKelway wrote a series of articles for the "New Yorker" about an elusive counterfeiter. Known as "Mr. 880" from the number of his Treasury Department file, this counterfeiter left a trail of disarmingly crude one-dollar bills across four boroughs of New York and the Staten Island Ferry, and led the Secret Service the longest chase in its history...
Mister 880 (20th Century-Fox) adapts the authentic story-almost too good to be true-of the most elusive man the U.S. Secret Service ever tried to catch: a lovable old counterfeiter who struck off amateurish one-dollar bills. St. Clair McKelway told the story in three New Yorker articles last year. Scripter Robert (It Happened One Night) Riskin retells it with just enough respect for the flavorsome facts and just the right knack of working them into warm, humorous fiction...
...graveled hill on Main Street, the foundations of the old movie house are overgrown with weeds. Nobody ever builds a house any more. "Every time a house burns down, it's just gone." Said Clair Dunlap, president of the school board: "I can remember when almost everybody hired a man to work the farm. Now you pick corn by machine. The men have to go somewhere else for work." In front of Edwards' store, four teen-agers complained: "Nothing to do here-just a square dance once a month...
...rendezvous with the derelict Scotch. Then, in picturing their celebration, their efforts to hide the loot from customs raiders and a chase to rescue the biggest cache of whisky, the camera goes on an inspired spree. For lightness, comic movement and inventive detail, these sequences are worthy of Rene Clair...