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...Ferrara. One of the most impressive feats of art sleuthing by X ray is reported by John Walker, director of Washington's , National Gallery, in his book, Bellini and Titian at Ferrara (Phaidon; $6.50). Sleuth Walker tackled one of the world's great masterpieces, Giovanni Bellini's Feast of the Gods (see color page), now at the National Gallery, managed to prove through X rays what no scholar could hope to do with the naked...
Mussolini, the latest example of a notably successful TV specialty, is in great part a monument to a new kind of sleuth: the film searcher. Before Twentieth Century could fit together the show's dramatic jigsaw pattern in celluloid, searchers had to hunt out the bits and pieces of aging film in 25 different hoards in four countries; to give editors a choice, they brought in ten times as much footage as editors could...
Married. G. (for Gerard) David Schine, 30, onetime Army MP and sometime McCarthy sleuth, Schine hotel and movie chain scion; and Sweden's voluptuous Hillevi Rombin, 24, Miss Universe of 1955; in Manhattan...
Pickup Alley (Columbia) is a corpse-strewn trail blazed by Trevor Howard, a masterful international dope smuggler, for the guidance of Victor Mature, a dopey sleuth inexplicably praised by his Narcotics Division chief as "the best man we've got." To make himself even easier to follow, Howard drags along with him a red herring called Anita Ekberg. And he goes on a real Crook's Tour-from Manhattan to a kaleidoscopic blur of bars, boudoirs and bawdy hotels in London, Rome, Naples and Athens-all genuine-location stuff, reeled off at such a frenzied pace that...
...Robert Mitchum into the cauldron and trusted that the simmering will wake him up. It does not. Mitchum yawningly tangles with a Babel of exotic accents, negligently disposes of spies, counterspies, a treacherous brunette (Genevieve Page), a seducible blonde (Ingrid Tulean). Drones one cobra-suave gumshoe to self-appointed Sleuth Mitchum : "You must be making progress. This morning I was ordered to kill you." Mutters Mitchum to the blonde: "I was lying about some things, but not when I said I loved...