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Lawford has the proper light touch as the light-fingered leading man, and there is some spooky London fog to go with the murky dramatic doings. In spite of a moralistic ending that seems to have been tacked on, this made-in-Britain movie is a modestly diverting thriller that is as pleasantly well-mannered as its hero...
...issue of McCarthyism hangs over Wisconsin politics like a pea soup fog. From Milwaukee to the Canadian border, it dwarfs the normal Senatorial issues in the press and public discussions. Because of it, Joseph R. McCarthy is favored to win reelection even though he has made not one campaign speech and has a voting record that defies the will of his constituents...
Through all the fog and emotion plods Democratic nominee Thomas Fairchild, trying to conduct a normal Senatorial campaign. Although he bears a proud family name in the state, and is his party's best vote-getter, Fairchild knows he probably cannot win the election on the McCarthyism issue. In a state with a large Catholic population and a strong residue of isolationist sentiment from La Follette's day, McCarthy has somehow convinced the voters he has bagged Communists with his blunderbuss attacks...
...commercial airlines? It's already here, say the British, who are flying their jet Comet on commercial routes. But Chairman Fred B. Rentschler of United Aircraft, whose J57 Pratt & Whitney jet engine is probably the most powerful in production, disagrees. In plain words, he cut through the fog of confusing claims about jet transports. Piston planes, said Rentschler, will still be flying the bulk of commercial travelers in 1956, and jet fleets will not come until several years after that...
...McCarthy issue is a wonderful way for the Democrats to pick up votes and, at the same time, fog up the Democrats' own record of denying or ignoring that there are or have been Communist influences in Government...