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...based on Inside the Third Reich, the autobiography of Albert Speer, Hitler's chief architect. Then there are the Hitler books, at least eight published so far this year in the U.S. British television in recent months has unreeled three major reports on the Nazi era, and Carl Foreman is sketching in the details of a 26-installment BBC series on Hitler...
Died. Burt A. Massee, 84, founder of Chicago's Scientific Crime Detection Laboratory, forerunner of the FBI crime lab; in Orange Park, Fla. A prominent Chicago businessman, Massee was foreman of the coroner's jury that investigated the St. Valentine's Day Massacre in 1929. He helped finance the work of ballistics experts in identifying the murder weapons, and their techniques so impressed him that he persuaded officials of Northwestern University to establish a facility to study scientific methods of crime detection. Among the laboratory's achievements was the development of the lie detector...
...young medical student from Buenos Aires has come to the ranch to spend his summer holidays. In the owner's absence, a flood strikes, covering all roads out of the ranch. The student finds himself isolated with the foreman Gutre and his family. Singularly uninspiring company, the Gutres are illiterate and nearly inarticulate Indians, of vague and long-forgotten English ancestry...
Houston's hulking, high-octane Defense Lawyer Percy Foreman has his own lucrative way of making the punishment fit the crime. "Even if I get a guilty one off," he likes to say, "he is sufficiently punished when he pays me." After a rich old man named Jacques Mossier was found bludgeoned and stabbed to death in 1964 in Key Biscayne, Fla., his blonde wife Candace, 44, and her nephew and boy friend, Melvin Lane Powers, 22, were prime suspects, so they hired Foreman. If Candy and Melvin "got off without a day of pen time," says Foreman...
Long before the subversive scare, the brilliant assembly-line satire Modern Times (1936) had galled industrialists. When the dehumanized Charlie went crazy-when he stepped from the factory trying to tighten the foreman's nose, fire hydrants, the buttons on women's dresses-big-business executives took the gestures personally. When the Tramp waved a danger signal at a truck driver and was arrested by the police for inciting crowds with a Red flag-well, that was ridiculing authority, wasn't it? Explained Chaplin: "I was only poking fun at the general confusion from which...