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...save his skin, and if he knew anything about Schuster's death, he'd spill it. Honor among thieves is a phrase as out-dated as the cliche about criminals returning to the scene of the crime. In a few months police will stamp "Unsolved" on the folder of Arnold Schuster and tuck it away in an already bulging file. The Brink's case, the biggest lead on it ignored, will get a similar treatment in Boston. And the syndicates will move...
...Hero. His amnesty proposal provoked the most serious opposition. Self-righteous Communists denounced it as "immoral"; Gaullist Deputy André Diethelm called it "a pact with the devil." Pinay fought back. From his notes in a big cardboard folder he drew some startling statistics. Example: French peasants and the petit bourgeois have hoarded more than 15 times as much gold as there is in the Bank of France. The obvious reasons: 1) Frenchmen distrust their own paper currency, which seems to buy less every day; 2) many wealthy Frenchmen have avoided paying taxes for so long that they no longer...
Full Quota. At Camp Strong, Japan, after he received a recruiting folder informing him that he would win a medal if he could sign up a few men for a state militia unit in Tulsa, Oklahoma, 45th Division Sergeant Gene Evans wrote back that he had signed up his whole company (mostly from Tulsa), was awaiting transfer orders...
...uncluttered desk he keeps a special folder called his "weather-eye file." There are laid out some of the massive problems for which he must find the answers: getting a manpower policy under way, food prices, pushing scientists into finding substitutes for critical minerals such as cobalt, stockpiling...
...Duchess of Idaho (MGM) is an Esther Williams musical, i.e., a pretty body of water surrounded by clichés. It shows plenty of the human form, mostly Swimmer Williams', against the travel-folder backdrop of Sun Valley in Technicolor. The makeshift plot stops and goes at the convenience of the songs, dances and fancy splashing...