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Despite its amiable air, this thriller could do with a few less supposes, a few more surprises. Of course, J. Edgar Hoover's man Jones has an allergy to felines. He sneezes a lot as D.C. leads everyone a hairy chase over fences, under bushes, and through one hilarious mixup at 'a drive-in movie, cleverly avoiding the crooks' hideout until the very last reel. Meanwhile, eccentric comedy bits are supplied by Roddy McDowall, Ed Wynn, Elsa Lanchester and gravel-throated Iris Adrian...
...have been following and harassing her. She wants Nero to make them lay off. The fat genius plunges in, following a tortuous, tightly plotted path until a nifty stunt finally traps two agents breaking and entering his house. With that for leverage, he can "push in J. Edgar Hoover's nose" and get the FBI off his client's innocent back...
...ticker-tape return from Korea, that Grace Kelly and Prince Rainier first revealed their engagement, and that Ernest Hemingway and Louis Untermeyer resorted to fisticuffs over some forgotten difference of literary opinion. For a quarter of a century, everyone who was not just an everyone dropped in. J. Edgar Hoover, Joan Crawford, Brenda Frazier, Rocky Marciano, Orson Welles, Helen Hayes, George Jean Nathan, Mary Martin, Tommy Manville, James Farley, Tallulah Bankhead, a freshman Congressman named Jack Kennedy-all came to be swept past the velvet rope...
...Revolution Against Authority." In a way, Chief Parker is too successful. He is probably the most respected law-enforcement officer in the U.S. after J. Edgar Hoover. His published views on law enforcement, Parker on Police, are required reading for lawmen all over the U.S. At home, the very fact that he has survived three city administrations−and helped them to survive−gives him enormous power and prestige. Moreover, unlike most cops who are content to tend their roses or go fishing in off hours, William Parker (few call him Bill) is a compulsive and all-too-articulate...
Layoffs & Cutbacks. Ford Motor Co. Ltd., Britain's second largest automaker, put 10,000 workers on a four-day week, starting this week. Reason: the credit restrictions imposed by Labor in June have cut home demand (exports are at record levels). Hoover Ltd., a major washing-machine maker, ordered 4,000 Welsh and Scottish workers onto a short week starting Sept. 6. The Transport Ministry postponed for six months about half of the $140 million in road building that was to have started shortly. Most telltale of all, unemployment leaped by 58,333−a startling...