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...most ardent brother-keeper. Every year U.S. citizens give away some $2,000,000,000. But they do not do it offhandedly. They have to be scouted, charted and carefully flattered. And they prefer to believe that all giving, however large or complicated, is as spontaneous as a dime for coffee...
...hovers on the edge of panic. Resolving to be cool and sensible, Wanley commits every blunder in the books. With the body crumpled in the back of his car he very nearly gets arrested for driving through a red light. At the parkway tollgate he manages to drop his dime in the road. As he fumbles for another coin the tollkeeper pokes and pries about the car, helpfully looking for the lost coin...
...super dime novel complete with spies and a beautiful adventuress, refugee-Author Heym (now with the psychological warfare division of the Army) pictures the power-poker played by Axis and Allies in North Africa. The most interesting character is Darlan-like Monaitre, who offers his troops to the highest bidder. Although the elements are similar, the effect is less striking than the author's Hostages...
Bride by Mistake (RKO-Radio) had every right to be a perfectly awful mistake, but turns out to be pretty amusing. Its raw material is one of those five-&-dime stories about the sensitive multimillion-heiress (Laraine Day) who, eager to be sure that her lover (Alan Marshal) is not overvaluing the basely fiscal aspects of their relationship, swaps places with her secretary (Marsha Hunt) and all but bangs the pair's heads together. The surprising finished product is the result of the fact that the film is written by Phoebe and Henry Ephron, directed by Richard Wallace...
...When I got home Manhattan didn't seem real. The first few days it was swell. People fell all over me. Where you been? China. Tell us about it. I did. But they didn't want to hear what men have to endure. They wanted dime-novel stories of adventure. They didn't understand what I was trying to say. I couldn't get through to them. They hadn't seen it. It hadn't touched them...