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...Havana, by Graham Greene. A mousy vacuum-cleaner salesman doubles as a British secret agent in this thriller. Reasonably entertaining, although suspense no longer blossoms as it once did under the Greene thumb...
...this latest Greene entertainment, the hero gets away with more than usual. He is Mr. Wormold, a middle-aged Englishman who has for years been the Havana representative of Phastkleaners, a vacuum-cleaner company. Just now he is pushing their new Atomic Pile Cleaner, and business is slow. Like many a Greene male, Wormold is physically unimpressive. He limps. His beautiful wife ran away with an American years before, leaving him with a beautiful daughter now 16. Without religious props himself, he is bringing up Milly as a strict Catholic just as he had promised her mother he would...
...washroom at Sloppy Joe's bar. A worldly friend advises him to take the money and send in false reports. Wormold, who feels he could never be a real secret agent, accepts the advice: he hires imaginary agents, composes false reports, even sends in drawings of vacuum-cleaner parts as diagrams of a devilish weapon being developed in a rebel province of Cuba...
Outstanding for Moors were Martha Nagle and Elouise Weld. In the first half, Holmes held a slight advantage, but Moors pulled ahead in the second period. Jean Darling, who played for Moors, said, "The play was cleaner in the second half...
General Motors' Oldsmobile, out this week, is also much cleaner than the chromy '58 that sold best of all middle-priced models. Pontiac expects a banner year because it cut prices by some $200. At the top of the line, G.M.'s Cadillac has less chrome and more of a sweeping rocket shape than the '58, is priced al most exactly the same-from $4,475 to $12,000 for the Eldorado Brougham...