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...many as 16 shows a week; his record is seven in one day. Last week, on "a sort of summer vacation," he did the dirty work in nine, including one soap opera. All this crime pays Bell about $30,000 a year, but he sweats like a stool pigeon for it-twelve hours a day, six days a week.* Even off the air, Bell sounds and looks like a hood just back from escort duty on a one-way ride. With his sneering voice goes a curling lip (with black, headwaiter mustache to match) and a martini-cold...
...guard (Hume Cronyn), a sadist who plays Wagner while softening up a prisoner with a rubber hose. There is the boozy prison doctor (Art Smith) with a heart of gold and some of the crummiest "philosophy" ever scraped out of the bottom of a cracker barrel. There is the stool pigeon who is efficiently murdered by his fellow convicts; and the steady old hand (Charles Bickford) who grimly joins the rebels when his parole is canceled. The one comparative novelty-Calypso Singer Sir Lancelot, improvising verses about the prisoners-seems like stale...
...grislier fate awaited three Hungarians. Charged with plotting a rightist coup against the coalition government, they were sentenced to a hanging a la Hongroise. In this procedure, the condemned man stands on a stool before a high post topped by a hook. A thin rope is put about the victim's neck and pulled taut about the hook. Then the stool is kicked from under the victim. His neck is not broken by the drop. As a measure of mercy, the executioner sharply twists the victim's head while a couple of assistants pull his legs down...
Wearing his famous broad-billed cap, perched on a high stool on the flag bridge facing aft ("only a damn fool faces into the wind"), Mitscher directed the mightiest naval unit in history in a soft, flat monotone that belied the compressed fury with which he fought. He was never known to get excited, even when Kamikaze flyers almost literally blew him off the flagships Bunker Hill and Enterprise...
...returned an hour and 15 minutes later. The judge slowly read over the details of their verdict, then he proclaimed: "Hardy, vous êtes libre." The spectators stood and cheered Hardy. But the Communists were still relentlessly waging their battle. Headlined the Communist L'Humanité: HARDY THE STOOL PIGEON ACQUITTED...