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...depression '30s, according to a popular bit of advertising folklore, a mysterious stranger walked into the Manhattan office of American Tobacco Co. (Lucky Strike) and held out his hand to an executive. "In my hand," said the stranger, "I have four words written on a piece of paper. They are worth $10,000 to you." The executive looked at the paper and promptly paid $10,000 for the four words. The words: "Be Happy-Go Lucky...
...general dies. Fairbanks gets loose with his unwelcome state secret, a bewildered stranger in a hostile country. His frantic, ever-narrowing efforts to get out of Vosnia alive, pitted against all the frightening resources of the state, make up the bulk of an exciting movie.They involve varied backgrounds (a music hall, a cable car, a river barge) and some sharply written, ably played characters, notably a blonde, half-English entertainer (Glynis Johns) and a scoundrelly smuggler (Herbert Lorn) whose wholehearted cynicism puts a fillip of fun into his every scene. Actor Fairbanks does just as well as the smallest...
...from a Rome art dealer put them on the track. The dealer had been visited by a distinguished-looking stranger who said he had a miniature by Raphael which he would sell for only 2,000,000 lire ($3,200). Suspicious of the low price, the dealer put off the caller and called in the police. They set up a street-corner rendezvous, nabbed the distinguished-looking stranger...
...Raphael they were looking for, right enough, but he was not exactly a stranger. The police identified him as Franco Bertucci, a salesman and onetime plainclothesman on Rome's own police force. The rest of the story, as the police told it: Bertucci had once consulted Professor Gramantieri about another miniature (which turned out to be a fake). In the course of the consultation, kindly Professor Gramantieri had hauled out his Raphael from its hiding place in the bookcase. On a return visit during the professor's absence, the police were convinced, Bertucci had known just where...
Sensitive Ears. In Chicago, when Lilly B. Johnson put a nickel in a jukebox and got his tune right away, a stranger who had already put in a nickel pulled out a .38 revolver and shot Johnson in the neck. In Andover, Mass., William Albert Trow willed West Parish Congregational Church $5,000, specified that it was to be used in part for eliminating "motor and other noises" from the church organ...