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...secretly flown to Immigration's alien deportation center in McAllen, Texas. Abel, no doubt, hoped that he would be quickly deported, but the FBI had other plans. Breaking into Abel's cluttered studio, agents found much besides art: finely fashioned drills for hollowing out rings and cuff links and making them into message holders, a book on cryptoanalysis, maps of Chicago and Washington and upper New York State, radio tubes, high-speed film, a Hallicrafters radio (capable of receiving messages from Russia), and a variety of cryptic messages written in Russian and English. The most intriguing, possibly...
...Coty Curl-Set), it looked as if Comedian Paar might be able to realize NBC's hopes of keeping TV "live" after 11, when many U.S. homes are surfeited with aged Hollywood movies. Boss Bob Sarnoff was so pleased that he sent Paar a pair of huge gold cuff links, and Program Chief "Mannie" Sacks sent "congratulations with a few suggestions...
...growing list of male garb appropriated by feminine fashion (oxford shirts, cut-down chinos, cuff links), something new has been added. Perched on pretty heads all along the East Coast, the man's straw is this summer's last word. Sales of the soft straws, reported conservative Brooks Brothers, have been "amazing." Said a pert teen-ager at Long Island's Southampton: "This year you're behind the times unless you're wearing a soft straw...
...circumstances. The trouble comes from Sidney Poitier, a pampered boss Negro whom Gable raised as a son; Sidney has turned bitter, would like nothing better than to plant kindly Massa Clark in the col', col' groun'. In the fury of his ingratitude, he is obliged to cuff Mulatto De Carlo for flouncing around like uppity white trash, even trains an unsteady revolver on Massa Clark himself...
...series of blackouts. At least half the movie is made up of wacky little vaudeville routines, in which a stock Englishman and a stock Frenchman alternate the pratfalls. Major (ret.) William Marmaduke Thompson, C.S.I., D.S.O., O.B.E. (played by Jack Buchanan, the British George M. Cohan), is a cuff-shooting old harrumph who has left his best years East of Suez. Monsieur Taupin (played by Noel-Noel, a comedian who looks like a French edition of the late Robert Benchley) is a middle-aged owl with a skid-mark mustache who leaps at every idea, flailing with all extremities, as though...