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...attractive daughter (Dulcie Gray). The affair at The Franchise is fomented by a teen-age girl (Ann Stephens), who falsely, but with plausible evidence, accuses the well-mannered Sharpes of kidnaping her, beating her, and holding her prisoner in their attic as a rather unusual method of solving their servant problem.* In the face of mounting community hostility, the perplexing case is finally cracked by a young lawyer (Michael Denison), who has taken an interest in the proceedings-as well as in Miss Sharpe...
...latter-day switch, as adapted from Josephine Tey's 1949 novel on the famous 18th century case of a domestic servant named Elizabeth Canning of Aldermanbury, England, who falsely accused an old woman of keeping her prisoner in a loft and soliciting her to lead an immoral life...
...danger are calmest about it. Less than a dozen miles from spotless, gleaming Helsinki itself, Russian guns firmly emplaced on Finnish soil are ready, if necessary, to reduce the pale architectural spectrum of Finland's capital to rubble. "Please don't write about that," a Finnish civil servant told a TIME correspondent in Helsinki last week. "We in Finland never mention Porkkala...
...sequence that recalls one of Shakespeare's low-comedy passages, Perro and Saverio hire out as servants for the party. There follows a lively mixup-servant shenanigans, romantic horseplay, boudoir burlesque-dampened only by a final scene which ends in tragedy...
...John Fine, Taft faced the Pennsylvania delegates, went through the usual question & answer routine. Later, Taft had lunch with Pennsylvania pols and pressmen, at which the minister of Hershey's All Saints' Episcopal Church invoked God's blessings for the President of the U.S. and "Thy servant Robert." Asked again if he hoped to have won over any delegates, Taft said: "I do not expect converts to come up to the altar and confess today...