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...Sleuth Caturla's most exciting find: magnificent series of ten scenes of The Labors of Hercules, done against mythical backgrounds. For years the ten had gathered dust in the vaults of Madrid's famed Prado Museum. Experts thought that they might be Zurbaran's work, but no one was sure. Rooting around in the archives, Maria Luisa Caturla was rewarded with a faded document bearing the seal of Philip IV's royal notary and stating that Francisco Zurbaran had been paid 1,100 ducats for a series of paintings representing Hercules and his tasks...
...reasons Tracy left Hollywood after more than 20 years was that he was tired of being typecast as a newspaperman: he was the original Reporter Hildy Johnson in Front Page. But so far, the role of TV sleuth still interests him. He can even see fine distinctions between his TV Martin Kane and the Martin Kane he plays on radio (Sun. 4:30 p.m., NBC). "On radio I usually pack a gun, and my relation with the cops is snarling and antagonistic. On TV, to get a gun, I usually have to take it away by force from some crook...
...smooth-swift-silent young men can top your phone, read your lips, and trail you around town in phony Howard Johnson trucks. Columbia's Walk East on Beacon shows how these methods were used to crack a Communist spy ring. Its generally authentic exposition of espionage operations and FBI sleuth gadgetry makes this an interesting picture...
...post office official hinted that the van was operating more as a stern reminder than as a sleuth, on the theory that the "social solidarity" of the more than 1,000,000 set owners who do pay the tax would bring the 150,000 recalcitrants into line. Said a spokesman: "After all, a chap who doesn...
...painting, wrote slick fiction with Arthur Train ( The Moon-Maker; The Man Who Rocked the Earth), produced a book of verse and sketches called How to Tell the Birds from the Flowers ("The awkward Auk is only known/To dwellers in the Auk-tic zone . . ."). He also became a successful sleuth. He helped police reconstruct the bomb used in the Wall Street bombing of 1920 and, after some laboratory work, led them to the man who blew up young Naomi Hall in the notorious Candy Box Murder Case.-The police began to consult him so often in baffling mysteries that...