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POPE BROCK as Jack Sheppard is excellent. He is self-assured and at the same time suitably wide-eved and innocent. David Gullette as the Thief-Taker General scowls meanly and reads his lines with precise meter and intonation. Senelick is good at developing expert character actors; Dribbling Wilf ("a criminal mastermind of the first water"), played by E. Mackenzie, has remarkable facial control and an admirable ability to salivate. The Incredible Porty McFigg (Lawrence F. Uhl) cats glass, strangles rats with his teeth, roars and grunts and pounds in his pornography-painted chest, all with considerable glee...

Author: By Kenneth G. Bartels, | Title: Giggles Anything You Say Will Be Twisted | 5/12/1971 | See Source »

Professors v. Politicians. Many economists think that the nation wilf need a quicker and greater increase in money than Burns apparently has in mind if the Administration is to head off a recession. Milton Friedman's followers argue that it takes six to nine months for any switch in monetary policy to make its impact felt on the economy. Beryl Sprinkel, vice president of Chicago's Harris Trust & Savings Bank and a member of TIME'S Board of Economists, calculates that industrial production is likely to drop an additional 4% even if the Federal Reserve begins...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Nixon's New Worries About Recession | 3/30/1970 | See Source »

Cavalcade of Sports (Fri. 10 p.m. NBC). Ralph "Tiger" Jones v. Wilf Greaves, in ten-round middleweight bout...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: Program Preview, Sep. 17, 1956 | 9/17/1956 | See Source »

Civil Servant. In Mountjoy, Ont., Wilf Perreault, fed up, resigned from his job as the town's police chief, fire warden, dogcatcher, tax collector, poundkeeper, building inspector, liquor inspector, fence viewer, cemetery inspector, weight inspector and school attendance officer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jun. 1, 1953 | 6/1/1953 | See Source »

...NATIVE of Russia . . . supervisor over the work of 6r writers, including Dorothy Parker and Tiffany Thayer. . . and editor of nothing himself . . . quick facts about Michael Wilf, new story chief for Paramount pictures...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: He Writes Nothing | 1/31/1936 | See Source »

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