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...rest of the plot, hélas, acts nowhere near so sensibly. Belmondo plays the bland best friend of Maurice (Serge Reggiani), a ferret-faced hood who bumps off a fence to get the loot from the big Avenue Mozart jewel robbery. Then, on Maurice's next job, somebody tips the gendarmes. Who? Is Belmondo le doulos, the stoolie? It looks that way until Belmondo uses the Mozart swag to triple-cross a gangland czar, gets Maurice sprung from jail, and splits a pile of G notes with his old copain. It takes a long flashback...
...optioned shares, and RCA Chairman David Sarnoff pocketed $1,126,000 from his options. In the 1950s, according to Menge, these were some of the paper profits of executives who held on to most of their options: former Coca-Cola Chairman W. E. Robinson, $1,270,000; Clifford Hood, former president of U.S. Steel, $1,362,000; former General Electric Chairman Ralph Cordiner, $1,710,000; Chairman W. R. Stephens of the Arkansas-Louisiana Gas Co., $2,532,000; Continental Oil Chairman L. F. McCollum, $2,578,800; former Ford Motor Chairman Ernest Breech...
...group will cite her woman-hood and acting excellence," and will use the opportunity to give a sneak preview of this year's Pudding show, William Had the Werdel...
Died. Alan Ladd, 50, tough-guy movie hero, a slight and, in real life, amiable Californian who hit the marquees in 1942 as the suave, trench-coated hood in This Gun for Hire (with Veronica Lake), played much the same cool role some 200 times thereafter, winning brickbats from the critics (except in Shane) but such dogged admiration from the fans that, as he once said, "every time Paramount wants to meet the payroll, they start an Alan Ladd picture"; found dead in bed; at his Palm Springs, Calif., home...
...capital of the world's newest "people's republic." Cuban-trained "freedom fighters" sporting Fidelista beards and berets stalked the narrow twisting streets. Carloads of whooping blacks careered through the Arab and Indian quarters, looting and shooting. Radios blared ominous messages of doom and death. From the hood of one car dangled a grisly trophy: the testicles of a murdered Arab...