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...Gideon of Scotland Yard (John Ford; Columbia), directed by John (The Informer, Mister Roberts) Ford, a Hollywood veteran who has made more than 100 movies, is based on a detective story (Gideon's Day) by John Creasey, a 50-year-old Englishman who is one of the most prolific novelists alive.* Their combined skill has produced a fresh and frantic thriller that amusingly wraps up a day in the life of a London policeman...
...begins for Chief Inspector Gideon (Jack Hawkins) when a "copper's nark" (informer) turns over a nasty kettle of fish: a member of Gideon's staff has taken hush money from a dope ring. Gideon rushes off to the office, rips the lettuce off his lapsed subordinate, sends out the alert for a sex murderer from Manchester. Then he looks in at the scene of a payroll robbery, gets word that the inspector he sacked has been killed by a passing car, discovers that the same car was used in the payroll job. Puzzled, he rushes...
Doctor Zhivago has sold more hardcover editions in the United States than any other book since Peyton Place. It was the most popular literary Christmas present of the 1958 holiday season. The proportion of pages read to books bought must be more lopsided than that of the Gideon Bible. And one of the biggest reasons for the disparity is reader fatigue; the busy man must choose between the book itself and the welter of commentary...
MacLeish spoke on "Poetry and Journalism" at the eighth of the University's Gideon Seymour lectures, a series named for a late Minneapolis newspaper editor...
...natives are laughing at us," moaned a member of South Africa's lily-white Nationalist Party last week. Reason for his state of nerves: none other than Gideon Andrew Keyser, 39, private secretary to Johannes Gerhardus Strydom, Prime Minister of South Africa, had just been convicted of making a pass at a 16-year-old African girl...