Word: finches
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Morse (age: 30) plays J. Pierpont Finch, a lad who is eager to score on the inside, instead of scouring the outside, of the Mies van der Rohe palace that houses the World Wide Wickets Co. Finch enters the mail room armed with apple-cheeked guile and a handbook to success that makes him the greatest ploy-boy in the history of officemanship...
With posies for the boss's secretary and ruses for the boss, J. Pierpont goes sonic. The boss is "J.B." Bigley, a pince-nezed P.G. Wodehouse caricature of a corporation president, which is precisely the way ex-Crooner Rudy Vallee (age: 60) plays him. J.B. knits for relaxation; Finch ar ranges to be caught knitting. J.B. warms, bumble-tongued, to his dedicated under ling: "I like the way you thinch, Fink." Naturally, there are booby traps in the corridors of power. There is J.B.'s nephew, Frump (Charles Nelson Reilly), who has the looks and the instincts...
Like Tweet (Columbia). The idea is cute and corny: eleven songs with themes that take off from the tunes of far-out birds like the purple finch and the wood pewee. "I suddenly realized,'' writes Jazzman Eddie Hall, "that birds blow the greatest riffs ever created." The band has an airy bounce, and the wonder of it all is that a few birds, notably the Baltimore oriole, come out of it almost as well as they went...
...FRED FINCH Spokane...
...Angeles, after two previous juries had deadlocked on the case, ruddy-faced Dr. Raymond Bernard Finch, 43. and Carole Tregoff, 24, his secretary and paramour, were finally found guilty of murdering his wife one summer night in 1959 (TIME, Feb. 15, 1960). The third jury brushed aside Finch's claim that the shooting had been accidental, found him guilty of first-degree murder, her guilty of second-degree murder, and both guilty of conspiracy to murder. When the jury meets again this week to fix punishment, Finch could get death on his first-degree murder count, Carole life...