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McKay over Hitchcock. In the Republican Senate primary, former Governor Douglas McKay, recently resigned as Eisenhower's Interior Secretary, won a comfortable 22,000-vote victory over Church Leader and former State Senator Philip Hitchcock. Victory after an unexpectedly hard campaign (TIME, May 14) gave McKay the right to face Democratic Senator Wayne Morse (stung by a 17% primary vote given a non-campaigning service-station operator named Woodrow Wilson Smith) in November. By pitting rough Doug McKay against articulate Wayne Morse, Oregon promised itself an exciting political season...
Stewart cannot tell the police this news because the conspirators have kidnaped his son to ensure his silence. The film slips smoothly into a Hitchcock chase sequence as Jimmy and Doris charge off to London to track down the kidnapers: there is a melee in a taxidermist's shop, an encounter with the villains in a Non conformist chapel, a hand-to-hand struggle with the gun-wielding assassin in a velvet-curtained box at Albert Hall, a final showdown in the gilt-and-mirror splendor of a foreign embassy. Hitchcock alternates his chills with comedy, as when Jimmy...