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...This one is set not in Glacier Park but in "the seething city of Macao" on China's southeast coast; and instead of Technicolor it provides a scarlet situation. The witness (Joanne Dru) is not only on the lam; she is also the "house guest" of an eminent gambler of those parts (Lyle Bettger) who for pure viciousness makes Vincent Price look like a corn-silk addict. The private eye in the caper is Tony Curtis, who not only uses his body more expertly than Victor Mature but sometimes even moves his face. The only trouble is that there...
Omnibus (Sun. 5 p.m., CBS). Comedienne Hermione Gingold; Hemingway's The Gambler, the Nun, and the Radio...
Bottom Card. In Elkhart, Ind., George Lewis Jr., picked up in a raid on a local gaming house and taken to the police station, raised his $25 release bond by picking the pocket of a fellow gambler...
...rascally, the inept and the misguided. He was so suspicious of evil that he organized a private detective force to keep the Interior Department toeing the mark. He balefully noted that Harry Hopkins, then the WPAdministrator, "is intolerant and impetuous" and is "playing the game of a desperate gambler." Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins talked at Cabinet meetings "in a perfect torrent, almost without pausing to take breath, as if she feared . . someone [would] break in on her." He felt it "little short of impertinent" for Mrs. Roosevelt to dabble in public housing, and added: "Soon I will expect Sistie...
...there is another group beside the prodigals--President Jordan calls those in this category his "gambler's group"--whose achievements have not yet equaled their potentialities. He says, "Each year we deliberately gamble on a fair number of young women who may not rank impressively by the criteria we have so carefully established but who none the less seem to the Committee to possess interesting personalities or to have cutting edges to their minds." A four-year study of the "gambler's group" proved they are worth the risk. Their academic record is equal to that of the student body...