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...young Associated Press reporter in Chicago, the whole business had an odd smell-or rather, lack of smell. It was during the blazing summer of 1933, and Ray Brennan, then 25 and covering one of his first big stories, was facing Swindler Jake ("The Barber") Factor, who claimed before reporters and the police that he had been kidnaped, held for twelve days in a basement and just released. Factor said he was still wearing the same clothes in which he had been kidnaped-but his shirt and suit were clean and only slightly wrinkled. And there was another strange thing...
...Sweet Smell of Excess. In Spartanburg, S.C., a jury could not decide whether Wilbur Fowler Allison was guilty of drunken driving, despite a cop's word that Allison reeked and was staggering, after Allison's barber swore that he had doused the accused with a 70%-alcohol hair tonic shortly before his arrest...
Students were carrying the refrigerator outside when the incident occurred. They scattered when the tube broke, warning the other occupants as they ran. Meanwhile, the House supervisor had telephoned the fire department. No one was hurt, although the smell lingered for several hours...
...unhappy about being a "compensation," and I suppose I don't mind being a "sort of Ivy League Dracula" [in the Oct. 19 review of Pillow Talk]. I can smell a compliment better than anyone I have ever met. No, all I really have to complain about is that I think you underrate Clark Gable [in the Oct. 12 review of But Not for Me]; he's really a deceptively good artist. That's all-but if overrating me goes with underrating him, then God praise the equation. TONY RANDALL
Barroom Dickens. Novelist Ruark has a sometimes fascinating knack for evoking the smell of money in print, is effectively sarcastic about such subjects as the boredom of suburban marriages. He is perhaps at his best writing about bars, which he does with all the poignancy of Dickens describing Christmas dinner at the Cratch-its'. But when Price's comeuppance arrives-wine, women and the SEC have made him a pauper-the reader finds it hard to believe that the man is truly shattered. This may be because an ex-wife gallantly bails him out with...