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...Yankee ingenuity of the Stage Manager. One believes that there is a "real" town, which he is groping to describe, and one is willing to forgive the pedantic local professor who gives the geological facts about the town, the "questions from the audience," and the rambling generalizations of Editor Webb of The Sentinel. Like a New England town meeting, the play has a chairman, an avowed purpose, and a sense that everyone in the audience must cooperate...
...boys, Eugene, did get into trouble in 1947, when he slashed a rival body-trader with a razor, but he celebrated his release-after two years in prison -by buying a $16,000 black-and-cream Rolls. In 1950 Reporter Duncan Webb of the Sunday People ran a well-documented exposé of the Messina brothers. Four of them promptly left the country. Only Alfredo, against whom Reporter Webb found no evidence, stayed on in a London suburb with his so-called "wife," Hermione Hindin, a fulltime prostitute. Arrested and accused of living on Hermione's earnings, Alfredo said...
...Defense; New York Banker John J. McCloy, onetime High Commissioner in Germany; Dallas Businessman George C. McGhee, onetime Assistant Secretary of State; General Joseph T. McNarney (ret.), onetime Commander of U.S. forces in Europe; Admiral Arthur W. Radford (ret.), onetime Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman; Oklahoma Oilman James E. Webb, onetime Under Secretary of State, onetime Budget Director...
...Remarkable Mr. Pennypacker (20th Century-Fox). "I," sighs Horace Pennypacker Jr. (Clifton Webb), "will go down in history as the most misunderstood man of my century.'' The century is the 19th, and the remarkable Mr. P., a prominent Pennsylvania manufacturer (Pennypacker's Prime Products), is what was known at the time as a freethinker. He is president of the Darwin League. He makes fiery speeches in favor of woman suffrage ("Women seem to be people-let them vote"). He goes lolly-gagging about the landscape in an avant-garde motorcar known as a Firestone Columbus...
...problem is that the picture, like the Broadway play (TIME, Jan. 11, 1954) it is adapted from, is trying to make people laugh at a situation that is not really funny at all. Still, for an hour or so Actor Webb manages to keep the customers with him as he conducts his sly and skillful retreat to respectability; but after that, somehow the joke begins to get tired. Even vicariously, bigamy appears to be exhausting...