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...Rosenberg brothers are embarked on a new venture that could well balloon their business without risking a dime of their own money. They are licensing the JGE name to furniture and carpet retailers who want to go discount. The licensees pay an undisclosed percentage of their gross to JGE for its advertising and merchandising help; beyond that, they are on their own. So far, JGE has recruited eleven merchants in New York and New Jersey and is negotiating with 28 others whom the brothers expect to sign up this month. The Rosenbergs confidently figure to expand soon from coast...
...took those G.I.s for every dime they had at cards, craps and pool." But the first night back in the States, he dropped $71,000 at poker, probably the worst hiding he has ever suffered...
Robbing trains and stirring up trouble, he is known as Kid Blue. But when he gets fed up with a bandit's life, he uses his proper name, Bickford Waner. Bickford (Dennis Hopper) leaves his outlaw ways behind him and heads down the trail to Dime Box, Texas, where he puts up at the boardinghouse and lands a job sweeping out the barbershop. Polishing shoes or eating supper with the other boarders, though, Bickford just seems to stir people up. "You got no respect, boy," a shoe salesman (Ralph Waite) informs him one evening. "What am I supposed...
There is also an absolutely smashing, irresistibly sexy performance by Janice Rule as an "actress" called Janet Conforto, who shows up in Dime Box one day "to do a single." The photography (by Billy Williams, who shot Women in Love) is elegant without ever being too fussy or ostentatious...
...After reading about the torture of the P.O.W.s, all I can say is: God have mercy on President Nixon if he sends one dime to rebuild North Viet...