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...Also among Garsson's friends: an ex-convict named Benjamin Franklin Fields, who had blossomed prosperously as a Washington public relations man. Fields was accused by Senator Hugh B. Mitchell, a Mead Committee member as having offered him $5,000 (as a campaign contribution) to soft-pedal the Garsson case...
Even if both title and cast are downright thrilling, A.R.I, may discover that customers look bored at mention of the proposed story about an unhappy North Dakota farm wife. The manufacturer who persists in going through with such a dubious theme is warned to soft-pedal it in advertising. (Paramount's Double Indemnity suffered when advance publicity tipped off audiences that Fred MacMurray was cast as a heel...
Around the World (adapted by Orson Welles from Jules Verne's Around the World in Eighty Days; music & lyrics by Cole Porter; produced by Mr. Welles) is Orson Welles with his foot on the loud pedal-which is roughly the equivalent of a lunatic asylum at the height of an electrical storm. Producer-Adapter-Actor-Magician Welles has blown up Jules Verne's famous yarn into a mammoth burlesque whose 34 scenes spill over the stage into the aisles and, when that won't do, resort to movie shots...
...Back Talk. The U.A.W. men agreed to soft-pedal the economics. Murray extracted pledges that no major strike policy be set without his approval. Nobody talked back about that...
...external consumption Foreign Com missar Molotov might soft-pedal the old talk of the capitalist threat, but inside Russia that's what makes the mare...