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John Huston's direction has given the film sufficient plasticity to pour it into any definition of farce, but let us settle for Fowler's: "Farce raises laugher by the outrageous absurdity of the situation or characters exhibited." Which doesn't yet bring us to Gina Lollobrigida (she comes later), but provides a good excuse for a summary of the situation...
...Henry H. Fowler, 52, Under Secretary of the Treasury. Courtly little "Joe" Fowler, a Virginian and a Yaleman (LL.B., '32) spent more than a decade as an attorney for the New Deal without ever becoming a convinced New Dealer. Once rated by a fellow lawyer as "the most careful man in the U.S.," Fowler reached his high point of Government service in 1952, when he was named director of the Office of Defense Mobilization...
...successful Washington practitioner of corporate law, Fowler helped shape the antirecession economic program turned out for Jack Kennedy last fortnight by M.I.T.'s Paul Samuelson...
Attorney Clark M. Clifford, Kennedy's liaison man with the outgoing Eisenhower Administration; former Air Force Secretary Thomas Finletter; former Air Force Under Secretary Roswell Gilpatric; Manhattan Attorney Fowler Hamilton; Marx Leva, counsel to the late Secretary of Defense James Forrestal...
...JOHN R. PANZAK Fowler, Calif...