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...hook or crook, trick or treat, carrot or stick, Director Kubrick has extorted a brilliant run for the customer's money from a field of Hollywood also-rans. As the leader of the gang, Actor Hayden gives a believable performance. As Hayden's henchmen, Jay C. Flippen, Ted DeCorsia and Joe Sawyer have the right wrong look; when the camera catches them together, the screen resembles a class photograph from San Quentin. And as the philosophic muscle merchant, Kola Kwarian throws the bull as charmingly as he throws the bulls...
...Syndicate to the New York Daily Mirror and 192 other newspapers, he has aimed the acid of his pen consistently at Communism, racketeering and racial bias in U.S. unions. His words have often been as hard as his father's fists. Typical opening jab: "For March, my private crook-of-the-month club award goes to Joe Fay [of the Operating Engineers Union], extortionist emeritus of the mobs...
Penmanship. In Youngstown, Ohio, awaiting trial on two counts of forgery, Lorene Montgomery gave city detectives a demonstration of her craft, wrote two clearly legible signatures at once while holding one fountain pen in her mouth, another in the crook...
...Indians. After wiping out a nest of Sioux, he stumbles upon toothsome Debra Paget and a papoose in the underbrush, and drags her back to camp to act as his cook. At this cavalier treatment, Debra smolders and Granger burns, but all Taylor does is sneer and menacingly crook his itchy trigger finger. However, the showdown must be deferred, since...
...Thomas Nast caricature of the bediamonded, potbellied lobbyist has faded beyond recognition. Says American Hotel Association Lobbyist Donald Montgomery: "Some businessmen are still stupid enough to want a crook for a lobbyist, a guy who can make the quick fix. But those characters are out of date." In to replace him has come a well-trained, accommodating technical expert whose facts-tailored, of course, to fit his own cause-are presented not in a backroom, but at a formal hearing. One of the lobbyist's biggest jobs is to gauge political winds and determine what he can get. Said...