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...Teeth. In the House, Missouri's knob-nosed Clarence Cannon, chairman of the Appropriations Committee, moved to give his committee sweeping powers to slice nonwar expenditures. He proposed that the committee have authority to issue subpoenas, compel witnesses to testify under oath, and to hire technical experts to sleuth through the budget. In a Congress bent on economy, his proposal seemed certain of approval...
...CASE OF THE SMOKING CHIMNEY-Erle Stanley Gardner-Morrow ($2). Author Gardner here makes his annual switch from his lawyer sleuth Perry Mason to his equally nimble-minded California oldster "Cramps" Wiggins, who helps the law understand an apparent suicide in a squalid shack...
...this psychopathic tension is contributed by Ernest Cossart in the role of a detective, Sergeant Rough. Cossart has been appearing in movies for several years, but has always been buried in minor parts as a butler or valet. In "Angel Street" he reaches full stature, playing a tender-hearted sleuth with an ever-present bottle...
...Huston's direction integrates the best in the techniques of Hitchcock and Welles to produce a picture which never falters. Even in the role of a government agent Humphrey Bogart loses none of his suave rapacity, and his characterization of an Army sleuth hoists the picture over many implausible bits of plot. With Nomura's grin still pacifying Washington, Bogart tracks Jap saboteurs in a wild chase from Canada to Panama. Ships, lonely docks, subway pursuits, and airplanes are all standard paraphenalia to this cast, which seems equally at home on land, on the sea, and in the air. Mary...
...CASE OF THE CARELESS KITTEN- Erie Stanley Gardner - Morrow ($2). Another brisk, shrewdly plotted and forthrightly told Perry Mason story, in which the adroit lawyer-sleuth cooperates with an intelligent and wary police lieutenant. Mason's analysis of feline antics supplies the payoff clue to an elusive killer and a pair of carefully contrived murders...