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...payment for goods shipped or services sold for which they had never been paid. The companies filed a blizzard of 300 lawsuits, attaching some $6 billion of the Iranian assets. Claimants ranged from giant Xerox, which wanted $85 million for its expropriated business, to small consulting firms like the Stanwick Corp. of Arlington, Va., which claimed it was owed $7 million for technical services like welding training for the Iranian armed forces...
...Lady Eve" has just enough of both slap-stick and character acting to make it a super-streamlised example of the plot-dialogue comedy. Barbara Stanwick can talk as fast as Miss Russell and vary her moods at a pace that approaches La Hepburn. Henry Fonda (as the dumb Eli) takes a script that could easily be overacted and plays it so convincingly that he draws sympathy even from a Harvard man. Preston Sturges, who wrote and directed the film, supplies enough complications for Eric Blore and Charles Coburn to chalk up some masterpieces of professional gypping. The plot concerns...
...current number of the Saturday Evening Post there is a story about, the 'Marquis of Benham' who has an unmarried sister by the name of 'Lady Stanwick' and a daughter entitled 'the Honourable Alicia...
...Lady Stanwick had been a peeress in her own right, which is possible, she could not have had a brother. If her brother is a marquis, though, she cannot be Lady Stanwick. She would be Lady Mary Benham (if that is supposed to be the family name). And the daughter could not be the Hon. Alicia. She would, of course, be Lady Alicia...
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