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...kaleidoscopic series of case histories, a gallery of probationers, ranging from the wicked to the underprivileged and mentally defective, are pictured in predicaments ranging from comedy to tragedy. A few of the excessive characters: a young hoodlum (Harry Fowler) and a delinquent teen-ager (Joan Collins) who fall in love with each other; a drunken society girl (Ursula Howells); an old lady (Katie Johnson) who suffers from the delusion that her cats are being poisoned; a faded vaudeville star (Ada Reeve) living on her memories and press clippings...
...Craig's Wife. She had fought against taking the part of the frigid, too-neat Harriet Craig, because "I thought it would hurt me as a comedienne." It may have hurt her: six pictures later, she all but missed getting the rich, sharp-tongued comedy part of Sylvia Fowler in Clare Boothe's The Women. Director George Cukor doubted that Ros was comedienne enough for the role. She met the challenge with her usual determination by acting one scene from the script in six different comedy ways. Cukor gave...
Next day, when the stock market took one of its sharpest flops in recent weeks, many traders blamed Turner's gloomy prophecy. Turner, who had misread revised figures on the 1953 budget, was quickly contradicted, not only by Presidential Assistant John Steelman and Boss Mobilizer Henry H. Fowler, but finally by his red-faced self. Steelman and Fowler stated-and Turner agreed-that the current $12½-billion-per-quarter rate of military expenditures will reach a peak of some $14 billion in mid-1953, then level out for two years...
Steelman's figures were not only stale, but misleading. As Fowler himself reported last week, out of $128 billion appropriated by Congress for military goods in Korea, only $34 billion had been delivered by June 30, two years later. A better cause for cautious optimism was that Mobilizer Fowler himself wants to speed up the stretched-out defense program. His first act as mobilization boss was to send word to the rearmament program's severest critic, Texas' Democratic Senator Lyndon Johnson, that he would do what he could to restore the original goals...
...Fowler, assistant chief of staff (assistant city editor), Sydney Morning Herald, Australia. He plans to study government and economics...