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Melville Cooper has a wonderfully sheepish face for the role of the chief thief, and is hilarious in his series of outrageous disguises. The roles of his proteges, the ardent Hector and the morose Gustave, are well entrusted to Lawrence Spector and John Reese. Guy Sorel makes the most of his mainly silent role as the hen-pecked Lord Edgard. David Bauer is properly reserved as the older Dupont-Dufort; and the endomorphic slob the latter sired is highly amusing in the hands of Tom Bosley...
...result, though few truckers are being hurt yet, the industry wonders if piggybacking might not eventually do it more harm than good. Says W. Stanhaus, president of Spector Freight System, Inc., which operates some 1,700 tractors and trailers: "Some roads have been prone to discourage cooperation, provide an exclusive service of their own, engage in public relations and power politics campaigns that would indicate that they are primarily interested in the elimination of all forms of competition...
...from their 30?-per-mile highway costs. By going piggyback, says the Rail-Trailer Co., which solicits business for the railroads, one New York-Chicago trucker was able to chop his trip costs so much that his profit margin quintupled. Eastern Motor Express, Cooper-Jarrett, Mid-States Freight Lines, Spector Freight System, and Denver Chicago Trucking Co. currently use piggyback for some 10% to 20% of all their long-haul trips. Kansas City's Riss & Co., one of the biggest U.S. truckers, ships 600 trailers weekly by piggyback. As a result, the line has laid off some...
Many people have conjured up the spector of a Chinese dragon, slinking down Congressional corridors, exhaling its unhealthy influence into strategic offices, and craftily escaping detection. They call it the China Lobby, but until now no one has attempted to document this configuration. This has enabled magazines like Time, whose editor-in-chief Henry Luce has often been considered a charter member of the Lobby, to laugh away the idea of its existence...
...electees will be formally initiated into the Annex chapter at a dinner later this term, and will receive their good keys at that time, Judith Spector '49, undergraduate secretary of the organization, announced last night...