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...senator who wants to dispossess the poor but tolerant folk in whose valley Finian has sunk his funds; Pat Wynn, as the hero's graceful kid sister who, being mute, dances to communicate (don't worry, she'll learn to say "I . . . love . . . you" before the curtain; and Steve Presser, in the small role of a cigar-chawin', bulge-bellied minion...
...week climbed dead on course from Cape Canaveral with $4,000,000 worth of sensing equipment crammed into it. Then, after 3½ min. because of what was officially described as "a human error" in the information fed into a computer, Mariner wandered irresolutely off course, and a button presser on the Cape gave it the order to blow itself...
...rickety vaudeville vehicle designed to display the low-comedy high jinks of British Buffoon Norman Wisdom, an artificial hybrid who seems to have resulted from the cross-pollination of Tom Ewell Jerry Lewis and an otter. Wisdom plays a knockabout Cockney trying to sing his way from pants presser to Palladium. Enroute, he falls off a psychiatrist's couch is clobbered over the head by a fat-lady voice coach ("We must always remember to keep our vowels open!"), gets stuck astraddle a spiked, swinging gate. When that gets rusty, he drops ice cubes down m'lady...
...Ohio's Boss Teamster William Presser, accused of using his union job to exercise a racketeer's control of the coin-vending machine business, ducked most questions by taking the Fifth Amendment. Reminded, after investigation, that the Ohio Conference of Teamsters and Cleveland's Joint Teamster Council 41 both voted to award him $20,000 apiece if he was "severed" from the union, Presser replied: "I'll tell you the truth if you let me get out from under the oath...
...Presser's union paid $1,000 for "public relations and professional services" to Ohio's former (1955-57) Republican Senator George Bender, who is now one of three "antiracketeering" commissioners appointed by Hoffa himself. Bender's answer: he sent the money back...