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Valachi is an aging (60), two-bit punk-once a thief, a dope pusher, a willing killer for syndicate chiefs, now turned stool pigeon. Yet last week he found U.S. Senators treating him with patronizing respect. John McClellan addressed him warmly as "Joe," inquired if he wasn't tired from testifying, quickly adjourned the hearings until this week when the mug from the Mafia said he was indeed weary. In fact, Valachi's act was introduced-with some pride-by none other than Bobby Kennedy, Attorney General of the U.S. Boasted Bobby: "For the first time an insider...
Jane Van Duser is outstanding as Molly Plummer, the skeletal fashion editor of Vogue. Throughout much of the show she simply sits on her three-legged stool, like the narrator of Our Town, and pronounces sarcastic judgements on life. But she really perks up in her second act pantomine with the grinning Marcello Agnolotti (Marc Scott). Her performance in this scene surprised and delighted the audience. The rest of the cast, in varying degrees, was simply there...
Detroit was a conservative place in the 1930s. All the auto companies, but mostly Ford, gained a sorry renown for the driving tactics of their harsh foremen and production speedups. The secret policeman, the stool pigeon and the scab nourished. When these tactics were protested by Ford's only son, Edsel, the old autocrat gradually withdrew from him, both professionally and personally, and gave increasing powers and recognition to his devious little chief of "internal security," Harry Bennett, a former sailor and sometime boxer...
...Battle Scar. In his olive-drab headquarters tent on the Plain of Jars, wearing a T shirt, a pair of Levi's and rubber bath shoes, Kong Le perches on a stool morosely studying a map beneath the light of a swaying hurricane lamp. The picture is discouraging: the Pathet Lao are advancing in the Vang Vieng area, 13 neutralist soldiers are missing after an action at Ban Boua, a 100-truck Red supply convoy from North Viet Nam arrived at the Pathet Lao headquarters at Khang Khay. At such news, Kong Le is apt to wince...
Infuriated, a burly ex-cop dragged Negro Memphis Norman, 21, off his stool, slugged him to the floor. As the Negro lay there, the white man kicked him in the face, kicked him again and again and again. Later, Norman was sent to a hospital-and charged with disturbing the peace...