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Mullins, Schroder, and William M. Preston, lecturer of Physics, who filed the complaint about Schroder, would not comment yesterday on the substance of the complaint, although Preston did say it "has something to do with her performance at work...
...Faculty has become more relaxed about psychiatry and has found us useful, helpful and cheap," said chief of psychiatry Preston Munter. "We're pretty good competition...
...lawyers like Mason, Hawkins and Preston routinely best prosecutors and private attorneys alike by dint of imaginative research and brilliant courtroom tactics. Without the aid of the TV scriptwriters, though, a lone practitioner or a small firm is rarely a match for a large adversary backed by a platoon of associates in the firm and a big reference library. Nor can small outfits usually afford the high annual fees electronics firms charge for use of computers that can search their prodigious memories in seconds and spew out legal precedents...
...screwball comedy stubbornly refuses to be reborn. It flourished in the '30s and into the '40s, urged on by the talents of such as Howard Hawks (Bringing Up Baby, His Girl Friday) and Preston Sturges (Sullivan's Travels, The Lady Eve) and considerably abetted by the general delirium of the times. The format flourished under Sturges all during World War II but died out soon after the war ended...
That the writers obviously mean Pete to believe this, and intend for audiences to accept it as well, is one of the few genuinely amusing things in the movie. Written right and played right, Pete's testimonial could have been the sort of denouement that was a Preston Sturges specialty, an inadvertent confession of blindness and stupidity. It could have had a well-honed double edge of irony, but such style should not really be expected from film makers who prefer a bludgeon to a blade...