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...name is Hallie Martin. She is played by Jane Fonda. She is a TV newshen, very chic, and ambitious for a big story, though looking for it in an unlikely place, the conglomerate's annual meeting at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas...
...pursuit of Reed, the reluctant Reynolds becomes involved with an engaging assortment of odd characters: Jack Weston as a New York-born Government man parboiling in sweaty paranoia; Alice Ghostley as a dotty old bookkeeper who has the goods on the gangster; Lauren Hutton as a TV newshen whose professional ambitions ire at war with her attraction to the superstud from the swamps. The job also involves Reynolds, a former stunt man, in a couple of nice action sequences, including a high-velocity motorboat chase and an imaginatively staged concluding set-to with his former friend. Finally, there...
...second-grade teacher is getting across the essence of addition and subtraction. But of late, willowy Social Registerite Victoria Thompson, a 1960 Radcliffe graduate who teaches well-scrubbed little girls at Manhattan's exclusive Chapin School, finds her problems multiplying, what with all those reporters nosing around. One newshen nabbed her last week, but Vickie muttered, "I can't talk about that" and hurried away. About what? Well, what that happy band of Rocky boosters on the Coast keeps gloating about: they say that on June 10 Victoria will marry Dr. James Slater Murphy, 42, the suave Manhattan...
With all this being said, it was no wonder that McCormack's patience gave out. At a news conference, he was badgered by Newshen Sarah McClendon. Would he resign as Speaker and remove himself from the line of succession? McCormack cried: "I am amazed that you would ask such a question. I was elected Speaker and I'm going to remain Speaker. I'm amazed...
...well as Britain, Cynthia's most valuable coup was to capture the secret code used by the Vichy government's diplomatic missions as well as the French fleet, which might otherwise have taken thousands of Allied lives during the invasion of North Africa. Posing as a Washington newshen, Cynthia had already seduced the dashing Captain Brousse, then the press attache in the Petain government's Washington embassy; by playing on his hatred of the Nazis, she made him a willing ally. "I was not just indulging his desires so as to get him to disclose military...