Word: offs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last month, the News broke Petit's exposé under Page One headlines: RACKETS THRIVE WITHOUT FEAR; WHO GETS THE PAYOFFS? Don Petit's story was detailed enough to make even blasé Miamians take notice. It listed the addresses and telephone numbers of bookie joints, houses of...
Charlie Wilson knew that the power industry had "made mistakes, it has been shortsighted . . ." But he thought it had also done a bang-up job - though it would have to do a still better one. To meet the increasing demands for power, he said, the industry should spend $1 billion...
All Over the Town (Rank; Universal-International) is chiefly notable as a starring vehicle for Sarah Churchill, onetime chorus girl, WAAF officer and stage actress, and second daughter of Winston Churchill. It is also an inoffensive little picture-which is fortunate for U.S. moviegoers who may be curious to get...
As a reporter for a small-town newspaper, Sarah has an easygoing role which she wears with relaxed assurance. She joins forces, romantically and politically, with a young editor (Norman Wooland) who is bent on exposing a crooked housing project backed by the town fathers. Meanwhile the camera, true to...
Yet, except for a few sickly sketches in the Hawthorne manner but without the Hawthorne skill, James, wrote few ghost stories until he was 48. Then he burst out with a spate of them. Editor Leon Edel speculates that this middle-aged absorption in the supernatural helped James compensate for...