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...weak credit risk, the recession actually im proved collections in some places. Sanger Bros. Department Store in Dallas and one of San Francisco's biggest department stores reported that collections were better during the recession than before it. Said Emil J. Seliga, president of Chicago's Talman Federal Savings and Loan Association: "The line of delinquencies this year is no more than the last two years. Sometimes I almost pinched myself because it seemed too good to be true...
Perry Mason (Sat. 7:30 p.m., E.D.T., CBS). Erie Stanley Gardner's famed lawyer-sleuth (Raymond Burr) is constantly embroiled in the best-plotted intricacies of TV's mystery shelf. His worst enemy is no crook but District Attorney Hamilton Berger (William Talman), whose batting average against Mason's brilliant courtroom tactics is .000. His closest pals are a private detective (William Hopper) and an even more private secretary (Barbara Hale), whom Mason keeps late at the office and takes with him on business trips. A true gentleman. Mason has no stomach for rough stuff, but even...
...Radio) is a crisp little thriller inspired by the real-life story of Billy Cook, who in 1951 killed six people on a transcontinental murder spree. The picture opens with a couple of Mexico-bound vacationing fishermen (Edmond O'Brien and Frank Lovejoy) picking up a hitchhiker (William Talman), who turns out to be an escaped convict and murderer. It ends with the Mexican police closing in on the killer and his intended victims just in the nick of time...
...directed by Actress Ida Lupino. The Hitchhiker is a knowing job, as harsh and unrelieved as the barren Mexican settings against which it is played. The three main characters are almost the entire cast. Edmond O'Brien and Frank Lovejoy suffer agonizingly as the captives, and William Talman is an effective murderer. Good make-up detail: Actor Talman's deformed right eyelid, like Killer Cook's, which enables him to sleep with one eye constantly, eerily open...
Harvard substitutions: Briggs, g; Talman, rfb; Rosenthal, lfb; Goodwin, rhb; Stroud, chb; Walser, ro; Wood, ri; Carroll, cf; Young, Jacobson, ll; Loeb...