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...Course, stretching like a shepherd's crook across the dunes, still belongs to the villagers of St. Andrews-and they have the papers to prove it. In 1552, a parchment provided that the Archbishop of Hamilton might raise rabbits there if he also allowed the townspeople to continue their "golf, futball, schuting . . ." In the late 18th Century the town lost title to the land, but bought it back (for ?5,000) in 1894. To this day, anyone with the price of the greens fee (three shillings and sixpence-about 50?) can play at St. Andrews...
Gentlemanly Crook. By far the best chapter in The Pinkerton Story is a report on Adam Worth, the "most remarkable" criminal of the Victorian era. In 35 years, he stole $4,000,000, never once resorted to violence. He forged checks on a Turkish bank, grabbed ?70,000 worth of rough diamonds in South Africa, stole 700,000 francs worth of bonds from the Calais-Paris express, and once took a famous Gainsborough painting from its frame in a London dealer's gallery. Operating mainly in Europe, he stayed out of reach of the Pinkertons, was imprisoned only twice...
...Bill Crook, cox of the Eliot, boat, attributed their loss to his faulty steering. Crook brought his boat too close to the Cambridge bank, throwing the stroke off and also cutting in on the Dunster boat, which had the inside lane...
...gave Oliver, and from this may have arson the protests about Fagin is a caricature, admittedly; but it is a caricature of a type of person, not (as those who would ban the movie have assumed) a race. Also Guinness plays Fagin in the only way the old crook can be played--with exaggeration, as an amusing old man of guile and evil. Guinness never leaves this interpretation. His acting is not a triumph of subtle shading, but it is wonderfully lucid...
...self-righteous airs, the movie does not practice what it preaches. The point of the action seems to be that a smart, ambitious telephone repairman (Edmond O'Brien) can cut himself in on the $8 billion if he applies his knowledge to the gambling racket. By hook, crook and electronics, Hero O'Brien works himself up to a high living standard, 36 changes of clothes and a love affair with another big shot's blue-blooded wife (Joanne...