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...Minute to Zero (Edmund Grainger; RKO Radio) finds sleepy-eyed Robert Mitchum, as a U.S. infantryman, helping outmaneuver the Reds in Korea in 1950. Colonel Mitchum knocks out a Communist supply route and turns the U.S. defensive into an offensive on the eve of the Inchon invasion. As a result, he is promoted to general and wins the love of Ann Blyth. a cute member of a U.N. health & sanitation team in Korea...
Cambridge patrolman John Grainger accused Frederick G. Fassett, Jr., associate dean of students, of dropping water bombs on a police car. Another patrolman said he thought Fassett "incited" 200 students to raid Radcliffe in quest of "dainty souvenirs...
...even the most cynical Hollywood moviemakers reacted with a cold chill of alarm. This was no Payton-Tone free-for-all, 'or Gardner-Sinatra burlesque. This time the triangle revolved around some of Hollywood's shiniest showpieces. The husband: Dartmouth man Walter Wanger (rhymes with Grainger), 57, noted producer (Stagecoach, Algiers) and former Academy Award president. Walter Wanger had been on the financial skids since his monumental flop, Joan of Arc; after another failure he went into bankruptcy for $175,000. But he was still a man whose name stood for respectability, culture and the intellectual values...
...Racket (RKO Radio) is Hollywood's answer to the Kefauver crime hearings, which showed millions of TV fans that the truth is often stranger than Hollywood fiction. Not to be outdone by the truth, Producer Edmund Grainger now strikes a blow for the moviemakers by offering a big-city crime fable as outlandish as oversimplification and exaggeration can make...
...drove around the countryside on his calls. He bought a secondhand switchboard for $100, installed it in a room beside his office, and got his secretary to operate it. Since then he has installed up-to-date dial phones for his 330 subscribers in mountainous, sparsely settled Grainger County, can tie them in with the Bell system for long-distance calls...