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...could lope through its wooded hills, he put a "Private" sign on his door in the Dartmouth College Field House. He ate such unorthodox foods as fried scallops before going out for a two-mile jaunt. He made friends with a local Swedish-speaking minister, told a visiting newshawk that he liked the minister "because he can't put what I say into the Bible...
Washington newshawk: "How much political news is sent abroad...
...nonsense concerns Grant's rather natural interest in the little ecdysiast gone good via marriage to one of Der Fuehrer's greasier agents. Fifth-columnist Slezak and bride tour Europe on a sort of official honeymoon, with newshawk Cary watchfully in tow. In no time at all countries begin to fall, and with them the plausibility of the film. What had been witty dialogue now falls flat, what started out to be a whirlwind plot is slowed by refugees and the agonies of captive peoples. Director McCarey makes no attempt to eliminate the more sordid elements from the story...
Story of the $25,000 was cracked by the Washington Post's ace newshawk Dillard Stokes* just five days before this week's New York primary election, in which Ham Fish faced the most serious opposition of his 22-year career as Congressman. Ham Fish snouted back: "political smear." His story: he handled the money as agent for Trujillo in some Texas oil well speculation; he lost half of it, sent the other half back...
...hunt flushed many another protege of Mrs. Roosevelt's from the thickets of OCD. One was Betty Lindley, wife of New Dealing Newshawk Ernest K. Lindley, who used to handle Mrs. Roosevelt's radio programs. Mrs. Lindley was "principal civilian participation adviser," at $5,600 a year. Another was Jonathan W. Daniels, novelist and editor-son of an editor-father. This man of letters was "director of program planning." For "operations director" the OCD named a New York social worker named Hugh Jackson, and as survey director, Mary Dublin, formerly with the Tolan Committee...