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...explain everything twice; Racket Squad aims at exposing the tricks of confidence men but has a hard time working up sympathy for its victims, since they are just as larcenous at heart as the swindlers who fleece them. Martin Kane has changed its leading man four times (William Gargan, Lloyd Nolan, Lee Tracy, Mark Stevens)-oftener than it has changed its plot. Two crime shows, China Smith and Du Mont's Colonel Humphrey Flack are played for laughs, while two others, Foreign Intrigue and Orient Express, gain some freshness of face and background by being filmed and largely cast...
...Traitor: "I went into '21' one night and here were all these people standing around, not even drinking, just watching Milton Berle. I decided right away that this was for me." Last May the leading role in Martin Kane, which had been successively filled by William Gargan and Lloyd Nolan, fell vacant. Says Tracy: "They opened negotiations with me and I jumped at the chance." He almost regrets that he has made a rule never to tell his salary, because "the people I'm working for are terrifically liberal-simply terrific...
...Show (Sun. 6:30 p.m., NBC). Tallulah Bankhead, with Joan Fontaine, Fred Allen, Josephine Baker, Gracie Fields, George Sanders, William Gargan, Fernand Gravet...
...days, divots and fur flew the length & breadth of the 6,643-yd. Rancho course. The rules allow a player to assume a fair stance, but when Jack Gargan, a Hollywood bit-player, trampled a young sapling to get more elbow room for an approach shot on the 18th hole, his opponent asked for a ruling. Sputtered Gargan, when an official disqualified him: "I wouldn't call a thing like that on my grandmother...
...Stranded in Manhattan after missing the last commuter train to suburban White Plains, one Elmer Patrick Gargan turned to relatives for help. To by-pass telephone-struck domestic exchanges, he called his aunt in Eire over the less-snarled overseas circuit, asked her to relay a message home. The call went through in jig time: Manhattan to Eire to White Plains. Cost: $12 for three minutes...