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...Trouble with Harry (Paramount) is the usual trouble with corpses: people can't let dead enough alone. A little boy (Jerry Mathers), playing in the woods, sees Harry first and runs to tell his mother (Shirley MacLaine). A retired tugboat captain and local poacher (Edmund Gwenn), who has just sent three rounds after a rabbit, finds Harry lying there with a little round blood spot on his forehead. "Oh, my!" he exclaims, for it is not hunting season. He is about to dispose of the evidence when the village spinster (Mildred Natwick) strolls by and. noticing Harry...
...treasured Oscars-but they stole the show. Broadcasting from the Cocoanut Grove, Irene Dunne's performance as straight man was one that even Dean Martin could envy. As for Lolly Parsons, at one moment she was tossing off her lines with all the raffish assurance of Tugboat Annie; the next, she was nearly disappearing from view in brilliant mimicry of the nearsighted Mr. Magoo as she sought to read her elusive script...
...I.L.A.'s month-old strike had cost the port of New York more than 5,000,000 man-hours of work and $350 million in foreign trade. Court delays stalled an effort to enforce the injunction by arresting I.L.A. leaders for contempt. I.L.A. President William Bradley, a longtime tugboat captain, called out the I.L.A.'s tugboat locals. Some liners docked clumsily on their own power. The Queen Mary went to Halifax. I.L.A. locals in other ports, gorged with diverted ships, stalled off Bradley's appeal that they join his strike...
Believing that 16th century Dutch architecture would blend well with the Gold Coast surroundings, Wheelwright hoped to design a Flemish castle in miniature. Once the plans were approved, he sailed to Holland, and traveling through the canals by tugboat, spent two years gathering the antiques and curios that were later to adorn the walls of 44 Bow Street. The building was at last completed at a cost of only...
...Card. The new union had been in existence for less than four months, was still being run by sailors, machinists and teamsters rather than bona fide dock wallopers. And I.L.A.'s new president, Tugboat Captain William V. Bradley, played a key card with neatness and effect: on the eve of the election, he met with John L. Lewis and announced that the miners' chieftain had extended his blessing. "Our financial worries are over," Bradley said, and added with satisfaction that he favored ducking permanently under Lewis' muscular wing...