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...Oregon, Interior Secretary Douglas McKay, home from Washington to start running hard for Democrat Wayne Morse's U.S. Senate seat, walked into an unexpectedly tough fight in his own party. While McKay has been winding up his Cabinet duties, Philip Hitchcock, 51, public relations director of Lewis and Clark College, has been wringing Republican hands from Hell's Canyon to Astoria, and gaining strength in rural areas where McKay has lost friends because of the Administration's power policies. "Everything will be all right," said a McKay worker confidently, "when Doug gets out and meets...
...enjoyed your March 19 article referring to Doug McKay's entrance into the Oregon Republican primary for United States Sena tor. Unfortunately, you failed to mention that McKay is not the only candidate in the field. Former State Senator Phil Hitchcock has powerful popular support in Oregon, and both TIME and Doug may be surprised when the primary votes are counted. A growing number of Oregon Republicans feel that Phil Hitchcock is the man that can beat Wayne Morse, and of course that is our primary objective...
...arms, and even proposes marriage. The whole affair takes a bizarre turn when Monique tells him that her father was a Negro. Britt rejects her in a drunken fury, Monique commits suicide, heartbroken Sam resolves to kill Britt. The last quarter of the novel has the flavor of a Hitchcock thriller as the two men, as cagily on guard against each other as against the Germans, go on a mission behind enemy lines. Sam gets his revenge, though not in the way he, or the reader, expects...
...infinite complications that develop when they try to cover the misfortune, which they figure is best done by earthing old Harry on top of the hill, are inevitable. The script Hitchcock uses is in the manner of a very garrulous Noel Coward, lacking a great deal of the sponteneity and verve which make salon situation humor tolerable. Funny verbal exchanges might have saved the endless repetition of burying Harry, digging him up, and then burying him again. Poor cold Harry must not have been amused...
...Alfred Hitchcock apparently never appears in The Trouble With Harry. He should have flown to California for the weekend to see what the Vista Vision boys were doing to his name...