Word: sleuthing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with an agitated, unimposing figure. Further, with Rathbone blowing every fourth line of a part he has apparently yet to learn, Holmes seems down-right muddleheaded. The effect is even greater, since the script grants Holmes few flashes of genius. Often the villains seem to be humoring the poor sleuth, as, when hiding behind a curtain in a singer's dressing room or disguised in a Rasputin beard, Holmes fools neither the lady for Moriarity for an instant...
...Brazil, only native-born Brazilians can own, publish or edit newspapers. A telephone tip to another anti-Wainer editor, Tribuna da Imprensa's crusading Carlos Lacerda, had advised him to look into Wainer's nationality. Acting together, Lacerda and Chateaubriand assigned eleven reporters and five lawyers to sleuth out the facts, then blared them in Page One headlines and on radio and TV. The tipster was right: Wainer's mother had arrived from Bessarabia (now Soviet Russia) in 1915-three years after Sammy was born. Cornered, Wainer produced immigration records purporting to prove his parents' arrival...
...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...