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Even the underworld, or at least its old guard, gets sympathetic treatment from The Blue Lamp. The plot is pegged on the London police's tradition of doing their duty without firearms. The film suggests that socially adjusted lawbreakers respect this tradition, but one amateurish criminal upstart (Dirk Bogarde) loses his head and plugs the picture's most likable bobby (Jack Warner). The courage of the unarmed police closing in on the gun-toting killer invites both admiration and suspense. What should most impress U.S. fans, however, is the reaction of London gangland's staunch conservatives: well...
...West Coast, the biggest radio & television manufacturer is Los Angeles' upstart Hoffman Radio Corp. Its boss is handsome, white-haired H. Leslie Hoffman, 44, a supremely confident salesman who has more than tripled his gross (from $3,525,396 to $11,987,650) in two years. In that period his company's stock has soared from $2.75 to $16.50 after two splits, an actual increase...
...Good Old Days are definitely over. Time was when a Harvard football team would think nothing of running up a pretty healthy score to mash some upstart West Point outfit. But now that Army has taken us 54 to 14 and 49 to 0, anyone can see it's time to draw in our hors little bit. We just seem to take a different view of football from most other people these days...
...tennis shoes, baggy pants and shirt and a fatigue cap that usually conceals her bobbed blonde hair, has done more than win the admiration of soldiers in her front-line reporting. She has also forced her male competitors, who at first tended to regard her as an impudent upstart in the business of reporting battles, to admit grudgingly that she was their match when it came to bravery and beats. More than once, Maggie Higgins has jeeped or hiked to hot spots while other correspondents hung back, thus forced them to go along, too. Said one colleague ruefully...
...fortnight ago some upstart Americans, from a country which usually yawns at the game, beat the British, 1-0, in one of the international soccer matches at Rio de Janeiro. Last week, when Spain beat them again and ousted them from the World Championships, the London Daily Herald took note of it with a black-bordered, formal funeral announcement on the front page...