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...hillbilly Jim Curley. He waves his false teeth in the air and slobbers: "Them N-double-A-C-P goons knocked my teeth out." When a heckler asks about $14,000 grafted from a power contract, Massie chuckles, slaps his back pocket and says, "I got it right hyer . . . an' you ain't gon' git a nickel of it neither...
...employers. Arrived in Paris ("Say, that's the biggest TV tower I've ever seen"), Hope discovers that his room opens on the very same balcony as Anita's-a coincidence that could easily prove fatal, or even embarrassing. Hope is in love with Martha Hyer, a mighty jealous girl who works for the U.S. embassy when she is not repulsing his amorous advances ("This is the mating season for shellfish, you know"). Anyway, things get worse before they get better, and in the end, Hope makes a desperate attempt to get the comedy off the ground...
...first case. Actor Crawford runs into resistance from a torpedo's well-kept woman (Martha Hyer). "I don't like men staring at me before lunch," she bridles, but soon goes on to tell what it's like to be a lamster's widow. "I thought it would last forever, like one of them watches you don't have to wind. But we sure done a lot of windin'." For a while the extortionist plays in-and-out-the window with the hot-car ring, but the game soon ends with the Feds...
Riders to the Stars (Ivan Tors; United Artists) is an oater of the ionosphere. The hero (William Lundigan) is a rocket jockey, the first man ever to ride a guided missile through the wide open spaces beyond the earth's atmosphere. The heroine (Martha Hyer) is a "space-medicine girl" who "dreams of flying almost every night." The rocket man is told by his double-dome dad (Herbert Marshall), a rocket scientist, to go and catch a meteorite. He does this, 80 miles above the earth, with the help of the most startling invention since the Sky Hook...
Recovery. The Digest, which has sometimes touted things that did not live up to the magazine's enthusiasm (e.g., an athlete's foot treatment that caused ulcers), hustled York Research's Vice President Warren C. Hyer out to San Francisco to work with some nationally known toxicologists on an investigation. They concluded that Pan Am's cleaners were actually using deadly carbon tetrachloride, which isn't in Glamorene. At this, San Francisco's health department publicly exonerated Glamorene and sales started up again...