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...Front Page Detective makes it impossible to take them with any more seriousness than so many Punch & Judy shows. Even those done on a slightly higher level of technical competence have peculiar quirks of their own: Treasury Men in Action suffers from a tendency to explain everything twice; Racket Squad aims at exposing the tricks of confidence men but has a hard time working up sympathy for its victims, since they are just as larcenous at heart as the swindlers who fleece them. Martin Kane has changed its leading man four times (William Gargan, Lloyd Nolan, Lee Tracy, Mark Stevens...
...Racket Squad...
...machine can hear its own racket, of course, through listening devices. When nothing is moving in the room, the reflected waves that enter its microphones are all of the same frequency-19,000 cycles a sec.-and the Alertronic holds its peace. But when a burglar creeps towards the safe, the waves reflected from his body have a slightly different frequency. The machine detects the altered waves and rings a police station alarm...
Humphrey Bogart: "I got a helluva good racket of my own ... I don't have the time and I don't trust the medium yet . . . You watch that stuff some time . . . Instead of being five foot eleven, you're four foot three. I'll wait until they get straightened out." Van Heflin feels that a series of weekly TV shows, for a movie actor, "can very easily mean the complete destruction of his career in motion pictures. The audience gets used to getting something for nothing, and then does not want to turn around...
...their latest books. Nicholas (The Cruel Sea) Monsarrat gets as far away from ships and war as he can in The Story of Esther Costello (Knopf). It is a skillfully written attack on the ruthless ballyhoo which makes an innocent handicapped girl the center of a charity racket. Another novelist who finds it hard to do anything seriously wrong is Wright Morris. In The Deep Sleep (Scribner), he dissects the private lives of a Philadelphia Main Line family, and shows that things aren't what they seem to the neighbors. In his new book, In Love (Harper), Alfred Hayes...