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Gypsy Cop Cars. Three police roles are the regular substance of the cast (Paul Burke, Horace MacMahon, Harry Bellaver). But the best evidence that Naked City is not just another cop show is its list of guest stars, which has included Eli Wallach, Lee J. Cobb. Maureen Stapleton, Eric Portman, Hume Cronyn, George...
...life and family confidences, opened on Broadway one night in the spring of 1945, and since that moment the front rank of U.S. playwriting has been wherever Tennessee Williams stood. Laurette Taylor, making a comeback as Amanda, became the first and greatest of the actresses-Jessica Tandy, Maureen Stapleton, Barbara Bel Geddes, Geraldine Page, Margaret Leighton-to play one of Williams' incomparable theater roles for women...
...tragedy transpires in a cold-water flat, where a decent, hardworking, stupid stevedore (Raf Vallone), an immigrant from Italy, lives happily with his dumpy wife (Maureen Stapleton) and a nubile. 17-year-old niece (Carol Lawrence). While his niece was still a child, the stevedore loved her as a daughter. Now he desires her as a woman but he doesn't know it-partly because he is too stupid, partly because he is too weak to face the truth. If he faced it, he would have to give up his unnatural attachment to the girl, and this he cannot...
...nation's most cost-conscious airlines. By servicing its jets at night, Continental keeps them flying 10½ hours a day (v. an industry average of 6½), yet has never had a passenger fatality. At the line's headquarters in a hangar at Denver's Stapleton Field, executive offices range from Spartan to shabby. Says Executive Vice President Harding Lawrence, 41: "We don't go for frills on the ground. We don't have an assistant to anybody...
...thrust would slow his plane down, and a reserve supply of hydraulic fluid would permit some operation of the main landing-gear brakes. As a last resort, the pilot could jam on the brakes with an emergency supply of compressed air. Grosso radioed for a routine stand-by of Stapleton Airfield's fire trucks and announced to the passengers that the landing might be "a little rough...