Word: sleuthing
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...shady deals which get them into the press. And many a libel suit is brought against newspapers by shady characters hopeful of windfalls. So some big newspapers, like the New York Herald Tribune, have libel reporters. Virtually a private detective, a libel reporter has to be a good sleuth because his job is to penetrate the respectable disguises of shady characters and prove that they have not been maligned...
...Westrick lived with his wife and children, looked up their owners, bit by bit pieced together Dr. Westrick's movements-and incidentally a lot of miscellaneous information about Dr. Westrick's guests. One day last week the Herald Tribune broke Rack's story. According to Sleuth Racusin, since May Dr. Westrick...
...grade-A. Author and cast took the cut and dried characters and unstocked them with a vengence. Siren Bennett gives out more laughs than heat-waves. Hero John Hubbard is slightly half-witted. Sleuth-reporter Menjou finds no clues, "reconstructed the crime" only once, and terrified gangland with a barrage of firecrackers. The whole picture is an uproarious burlesque on all murder-newsroom sex quickies past, present, and future...
Umpteenth in a series of screwball comedies, "The Amazing Mr. Williams" provides an amusing respite from Widener. Joan Blondell and Melvyn Douglas both turn out humorous performances in Columbia's imitation of the "Thin Man" series. Super-sleuth Douglas in the course of the picture apprehends a bank robber, decoys a skull-crusher, and takes a "desperate criminal,"--middle-aged and bald--on a double date to the beach with Miss Blondell. One of the more slap-stick incidents occurs when the amazing Mr. Williams attempts to disguise himself by donning women's clothes; it is a backneyed device...
KNOCK, MURDERER, KNOCK!-Harriet Rutland-Harrison-Hilton ($2). Plenty baffled are Local Inspector Palk and a mysterious amateur sleuth when three guests in an English hydropathic hotel have their heads skewered with a steel knitting needle. Neurotic, crossgrained, gossipy characters are the tale's specialty...