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...identity. This may be courage: more likely his soothing of the flock after the assassination is a method of control: Altman's last shot in the film, before he pans up to the sky, is of a policewoman, prim in her cap, marching through the crowd with a bag slung officially over her shoulder. Maybe the singing Haven Hamilton is a kind of fascist...
Crime on Her Mind edited by Michele B. Slung. 380 pages. Pantheon. $10. To support her blind husband, the heroine throws propriety to the winds and enters a "profession which was not only a harassing and exhausting one for a woman, but by no means free from grave personal risks." Not to put too fine a point on it, she becomes a detective. As this surprising anthology of 15 mystery tales demonstrates, the lady was hardly alone. The sisterhood began digging up clues a quarter-century before Sherlock Holmes appeared on Baker Street. They have been at it ever since...
Editor Michele Slung offers a bright lineup of female sleuths dating from Victorian times to the 1940s. Aside from Mignon Eberhart and E. Phillips Oppenheim, the authors will be unfamiliar to all but cultists. Even the worst of them, though, retain a kind of campy charm. For if the paraphernalia of detection have not changed much over the past 100 years, the women clearly have. In The Stir Outside the Café Royal (1898), demure Miss Van Snoop captures a notorious murderer and then weeps for 30 minutes. Observes the author: "She had earned the luxury of hysterics...
While President Ford fielded questions at his White House press conference, at least one photographer focused on him with special care. With three cameras slung over her jacket, Susan Ford, 17, wedged herself into the press ranks and began clicking away under the tutorial eye of presidential Photographer David Kennerly. Susan may be learning her craft more quickly than anyone realizes. As reporters clustered around the President at the close of his remarks, one onlooker jokingly suggested that Ford economize by firing Kennerly and hiring Susan. "That wouldn't save much," she shot back between pictures...
...Northern California, for example, Kentucky Fried Chicken sells out of low-slung buildings with dark mansard roofs. But when Salem, Mass., a small city proud of its 18th century buildings, insisted that a proposed new Burger King had to complement the town's colonial architecture, the chain drew the line. Instead of responding with its well-known slogan, "Have it your way," Burger King abandoned its plans to build in Salem...