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...John F. Kane, 39, a Truman Administration holdover, resigned as special assistant (for public relations) to Army Secretary Robert Stevens. Announced reason: Kane did not like the Republican Administration's handling of the McCarthy-Army row. Wrote he to Stevens: "If those who are infinitely more skilled in politics and publicity could have your courage, there would be a quick end to this fight...
Travel Orders. In Cincinnati, a bandit held up Thomas Kane, relieved him of $26, handed him a quarter and advised: "Take a bus home...
...this slaughter and assault took place, respectively, on TV's Rocky King, Dragnet, The Mask, Front Page Detective, Martin Kane, The Big Story, Big Town, The Man Behind the Badge, and Foreign Intrigue. More people are killed each year on TV's crime shows than die annually by murder and non-negligent manslaughter in the six largest cities of the U.S. But, in one respect, television has a better record than the nation's police: every TV lawbreaker pays the penalty for his crime...
...Treasury Men in Action suffers from a tendency to explain everything twice; Racket Squad aims at exposing the tricks of confidence men but has a hard time working up sympathy for its victims, since they are just as larcenous at heart as the swindlers who fleece them. Martin Kane has changed its leading man four times (William Gargan, Lloyd Nolan, Lee Tracy, Mark Stevens)-oftener than it has changed its plot. Two crime shows, China Smith and Du Mont's Colonel Humphrey Flack are played for laughs, while two others, Foreign Intrigue and Orient Express, gain some freshness...
...picture, projected back through the same type of lens, would recreate the original scene; the camera could project downward from the center of the theater, and could include two such lenses in a polarized system on a common axis for 3-D; also the vibrating-prism system of Citizen Kane for all-in-focus effect . . . A few problems remain (beside the presently unsolved nicker effects, etc., emphasized by 3-D), such as-which is the best way offstage? Into a subterranean cavern below the camera, or over the horizon, or behind the nearest hill or building...