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...role of the altruistic inventor who moves imperturbably through all the chaos is tailor-made for Alec (The Lavender Hill Mob) Guinness, with his sad, bland, foxy face. Deft sound-track embroidery: the rhythmical gurgles, bubbles, woofs and squirts of the test tubes that constantly point up the comic hubbub...
...with the girl, quarreled with her in the park and knocked her down. As he walked away, he said, "I looked back and saw a soldier helping her up." Hall was convinced. Still talking on the phone, he scribbled a hasty note to City Editor Jack McDowell: "Whitcomb Hotel tailor shop (Rodriguez -killer)." Reporters John Keyes, Walsh and two photographers raced to the Whitcomb, found Rodriguez at the phone, still talking to Rewrite Man Hall, and hustled him to the Call's city room...
...will then be possible to hand-tailor human beings," he said. "You can breed them for this, that, or the other attribute...
Double Usurpation. Back in Havana, Batista and his boys tasted the first fruits of victory. Soldiers' pay was doubled, police salaries were raised 50%. Three portly colonels, retired when Batista left the presidency in 1944, were observed at a tailor shop being fitted for new uniforms. A lieutenant (j.g.), promoted to captain, became chief of naval operations. To run the lottery, a traditional gravy bowl, Batista named the same henchman who handled the ladle eight years ago. And he put the customs service, source of most government revenue, under army control...
Issue Skirted. In London, the trade journal Tailor & Cutter denounced pajamas, advised how to keep a nightshirt from creeping up during sleep: "Put your garters on upside down and connect the fasteners with...