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...musical, lacking only the traditional aerial views of chorus girls sprawling in living floral patterns. Jokes and Chrysler commercials sometimes had interchangeable parts. Cooed Barbara Nichols, playing a scrub girl in a carwash emporium: "Gee, isn't he [Raitt] cute! He can put his Imperial on my wash rack any time!" Jack Benny had the embarrassed air of one trapped in a cold Shower that could not be shut...
Sweepstakes. In Detroit, three thieves robbed a grocery of beer, wine and assorted meats, realized they would leave tracks in the snow, took a broom from a rack and carefully erased their footprints as they went, were caught anyway by police, who simply followed broom marks to the right door...
...based on the Broadway play (TIME, Feb. 6, 1956) and capably adapted to the screen by Actor-turned-Director Karl Maiden, is the best picture made to date on the subject of brainwashing. The presiding virtue of the film is that, unlike others of its kind (The Prisoner, The Rack, 1984), it does not prejudge its case...
...hard-up Depression time, and Dick borrowed $1,000 on a life insurance policy, got hold of a battered Oldsmobile coupé to go campaigning 40,000 miles across the state and got elected. He was sworn in by his father, the chief justice (appointed) and then began to rack up such a record of efficiency and integrity-he cut 102 state departments, bureaus and commissions to 17, even dropped his father from two patronage jobs in the state university system-that he was able the next year to run for U.S. Senator and win. In January 1933 Dick Russell...
Bench jockeys heckled him from across the diamond and shirtsleeved kibitzers shouted advice from the stands, but the burly, ruddy man alongside the Cincinnati bat rack gave no sign that he heard. The center-field Scoreboard reminded him that he was a front runner in a National League pennant race so close that the loss of a single game might mean the difference between first place and fourth, but beyond pawing abstractedly at his red-sleeved uniform shirt, he appeared unmoved. All week long, alone in the shouting crowd with his furious concentration, the Redlegs' Manager George Robert ("Birdie...