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...Magnet [J. Arthur Rank; Universal) is a slow, pleasant British comedy that examines the mind of a ten-year-old boy. Like the boy in The Fallen Idol, The Magnet's hero (William Fox) is the victim of his childishly dramatized interpretation of overheard conversations and the mysterious conduct of adults. While the police look for him to give him a medal for an unwitting civic good deed, he fears that he is being hunted down as a thief and possibly a murderer. His psychiatrist father (Stephen Murray) smugly assures his worried wife (Kay Walsh) that their...
Most foreign correspondents are attracted to Washington as irresistibly as iron filings to a magnet. Not so Alistair Cooke, 42, author (A Generation on Trial) and chief U.S. correspondent of England's famed Manchester Guardian. ". . . Washington may be the best place to watch how the Government sees the foreign news," Cooke wrote recently, "[but] it is possibly the worst place to watch how America sees the world...
...Spencer County Magnet, Editor Burlyn Pike straightened Columnist Pearson out. The jail, built 23 years ago, was made not of logs, but concrete; it had four cells, not two; and no runaway boy had been detained there since 1943. The embarrassed Courier-Journal asked one of its Washington correspondents, hardworking John Day, to "nail Pearson...
...developed a troublesome hook, but dug into his bag for brilliant recovery shots. One of his putts curled 60 feet over an undulating green before it dropped into the cup as though pulled by a magnet. On the long 17th he paused wearily and grinned: "You know, I've played this hole for ten years and I just realized it's uphill all the way." But he fired a brilliant 69, two under par, and moved into third place in the field...
Rumor clung to him like filings to a magnet. Wise guys whispered knowingly that he had ordered the Beverly Hills murder of his old friend Bugsy Siegel, the shooting of Los Angeles Hoodlum Mickey Cohen and dozens of other cases of violence. In three months he had been charged with influencing politics in New York, Kansas City, Los Angeles and New Orleans. Crime commissions speculated feverishly that he owned gambling houses and nightclubs from Florida to California, controlled race wires across the nation, ran the baleful Unione Siciliana (i.e., the U.S. Mafia) and financed everything from narcotics smuggling to jewel...