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Four of the shows are badly acted. The single exception here is "Where Do We Go From Here," which involves something including Carmen Miranda, sabotage, stolen records, and the Articles of War. The play was made amusing and worthwhile by the double-talking sergeant reading the articles of war ("Article I--Flibbergabbit on the scrannifornia with homerjohnny fidledudeed on government satchelfradd--the penalty is death!"), and an excellent comic as the supposed saboteur who becomes the recipient of a kiss from a hairy-chested Carmen Miranda...
Last week a New York Supreme Court justice, J. Sidney Bernstein, in approving $4,100,000 in commissions for them, came out foursquare for the trio: "The Miranda group was rather more sinned against than sinning...
After two years of smearing, the reputations of three of the fanciest supersalesmen in the U.S. were cleared last week. The Miranda brothers (Alfred and Ignacio) and their partner, Felix William Zelcer, had bagged $107,000,000 of foreign business for Brewster Aeronautical Corp., had been spectacularly accused of charging exorbitant commissions for it. The case had been lively reading in & out of the courts for 22 months (TIME...
...other stockholders, who had seen Brewster earn less than $300,000 while the Miranda threesome were due to earn $5,400,000 (and had already earned $2,800,000), all this looked somewhat fancy...
Everybody Happy? Last week's settlement, like most compromises, appeared to make everyone reasonably happy. Said the Mirandas' lawyer: "A complete vindication." (The brothers need it to bolster their plea for a Presidential pardon on their prison sentence.) The opposing lawyers pointed out that any "exoneration" of the Miranda group must wait until Justice J. Sidney Bernstein gives final court approval later this month. And some Buccaneers are finally in action. In any case, whatever earnings there are on its current backlog (around $257 million) will henceforth belong to Brewster...