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...regicide conspiracy? Poor little Wheeler was grilled at length to discover if it was. Rumors spread that he was really a dwarf, or a scout for a gang of thieves, or "a Certain Gentleman's idiot bastard that had been shut up in the Devil's Tower since birth and had escaped after braining his keeper...
Finding replacements for this generation of stars is, Hollywood thinks, its top-priority problem. In other days, that might have meant turning loose an army of assistant producers (and relatives) to scout the nation's soda fountains for blondes. Today's need is great enough to warrant a more elaborate approach...
Higher Authority. In Hollywood, two Apache Indians, hired to build an Indian pine-bough oven on a movie set, held up production while they learned how from a Boy Scout manual...
...wife did not know the story; all she knew was that her husband could not be a traitor. But old friends shunned her. Her 13-year-old son Yaakov was expelled from his Boy Scout troop; she tried to keep the news from him, worked out stratagems to keep him indoors. "There were stories that we had a radio transmitter hidden in the refrigerator," she recalled, "that we signaled the Arabs from the window, that we hid the money the British paid us under the floor. But," she added bitterly, "no one ever came to investigate...
...wildly improbable blueprint of a Communist Party cell which for sheer indiscretion and moral decay would surprise even the FBI. Fashioned in the image of Hollywood gangsters, the hard core of the cell includes a couple of strong-arm goons who stand guard over the indoctrination classes, a party scout who looks like a prosperous bookie, and a bigtime commissar who welcomes nonparty members into the secret sessions of his local politburo...