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...commission crack down on the J.B. Williams Co.'s claims that its Geritol and FemIron remedy tiredness, loss of strength or nervousness. The FTC turned the case over to the Justice Department, which is suing for $1,000,000 in penalties against Williams and its agency, Parkson Advertising. Similarly, the FTC has been investigating the advertising promises of Excedrin, Anacin, Bufferin, Bayer, St. Joseph aspirin and other analgesics since the early 1960s. It has issued complaints and proposed guidelines, but its efforts remain bogged in the courts on procedural technicalities...
...story of how Joe Parkson, a lame vet, played by Robert Ryan, stalks a prosperous contractor (Van Heflin) who was his senior officer when their plane was forced down during the war and the crew thrown into a German concentration camp. Parkson and ten others had a tunnel built through which they planned to escape. Frank Enley (Heflin) tried to persuade them not to attempt it but when they defied him Enley went to the Nazis, who agreed to leniency in view of the fact that Enley reported the scheme. The Nazis weren't lenient. Parkson was the only...
Ryan is a determined, calculating pursuer: Heflin is a frightened--later desperate--pursued. Both are excellent and get fine female support from Janet Leigh (Mrs. Enley). Phyllis Thaxter (Parkson's girl), and Mary Astor, who picks up Enley in a bar and eventually leads him to his inevitable, and perhaps just, doom...
...summary: HARVARD NEW HAMPSHIRE Hurvich, Salmon, g. g., Greenwood Boldt, Taylor, Amazeen, c.pt. c.pt., Wagerman, Hawkes Clark, Robinson, pt. pt., Tasker Marshall, Brinckley, 1d. 1d., Colburn Dunn, Henderson, 2d. 2d., Chase Winter, Hodge, 3d. 3d., Dallinger, Sullivan Pattison c. c., Perkins Davidson, Gulick, 3a. 3a., Sluck, Parkson Briggs, 2a. 2a., Pinley, Hazzard Foshay, Sanders, 1a. 1a., Hagstrom Kuhl, Lay, Glenn, o.h. o.h., Walk Keck, Murphy, i.h. i.h., Butson, Plourde...
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