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...Suez Canal Co., which has been a hen without a nest since Egypt nationalized its big ditch, last week voted itself another career. In Paris, founder stockholders formally launched, the company into new business worlds as a French investment trust corporation. The Suez Canal Co. will invest $2,800,000 in French companies digging for oil in Algerian Sahara, and already owns a 30% chunk of the planned English Channel tunnel project. Other projects under consideration: oil ventures in Canada, iron deposits in North Africa...
...that his three brothers and a sister are geniuses, but that he is a dolt. He takes it in good grace: "I sure wish I was an artist, a genius, thought Edward, instead of being dumb like I am." Dumb Ed has a dumb friend, a little pet hen that pecks "feverishly at his lips and cheeks" when he is not busy slicing salami. One day Ed's youngest brother lets the hen out of the coop to be eaten by a cat. Any psychologically oriented reader can guess that this traumatic experience makes Ed mean, hard, ambitious...
...Marina. At first she is cool. She is bitterly ashamed of her family's poverty, and almost morbid with humiliation when the whole town starts to talk about her mother, who has been beating about the bushes with a local lounger ("The older the hen," somebody snickers, "the better the broth...
...home of Police Chief Frank Story, and turned in his badge. Next day the whole town shared the surprise. Cried Scripps-Howard's Cleveland Press across eight columns: PRESS WRITER BARES SECRET, WAS POLICEMAN SIX MONTHS. Crowed Editor Louis B. Seltzer, whose Press covers Cleveland like a mother hen : "This is the first time that any paper in the country has obtained the inside story of the workings of a police department by assigning a writer to the job of actual police work." Seamy Underside. It was also one of the most strenuous reportorial masquer ades since...
...role of the chief thief, and is hilarious in his series of outrageous disguises. The roles of his proteges, the ardent Hector and the morose Gustave, are well entrusted to Lawrence Spector and John Reese. Guy Sorel makes the most of his mainly silent role as the hen-pecked Lord Edgard. David Bauer is properly reserved as the older Dupont-Dufort; and the endomorphic slob the latter sired is highly amusing in the hands of Tom Bosley...