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Sweet Smell of Success (Hecht, Hill and Lancaster; United Artists) is a high-tension jolt into the rat-eat-rat, rat-tat-tattle world of a monstrous Broadway columnist (Burt Lancaster) and his favorite hatchetman (Tony Curtis), a pressagent who has swapped his soul for a mess of items. No self-respecting vulture would be caught in the company of these carrion slingers. Says Curtis the flack of Lancaster the gossipist: "You got him for a friend; you don't need an enemy!" Says Burt to Tony: "I'd hate to take a bite...
...balked at Russia's 1952 peace offensive; in Toulouse, France. After Roughneck Marty caught the party's eye, he was elected in 1924 to the Chamber of Deputies (where he served 1924-32, 1936-39, 1946-55), during the next decade became notorious as a party hatchetman. He helped organize (1936) the International Brigade, won dubious recognition for his Spanish Civil War exploits from Novelist Ernest Hemingway: "He is crazy as a bedbug. He has a mania for shooting people...
Nixon: "The vice hatchetman" of the Republican Party (Clement); "the chief function of the Vice President should not be that of a political sharpshooter for his party. It should not be that of providing the smear under the protection of the President's smile" (Candidate Estes Ke-fauver); "the White House pet midget, Moby Dick Nixon and his whale † of a pup, Checkers" (Kerr...
...them as these old soldiers fold their tents and just fade away." Clement conjured up florid images of Eisenhower, a genial, glamorous and affable general who had joined the Republican Party after he had reached the age for retirement from the Regular Army, and of Richard Nixon, "the Vice-Hatchetman slinging slander and spreading half-truths while the top man peers down from the green fairways of indifference." Dwight Eisenhower, cried Clement, "cannot Jim Hagertize his way through this whole campaign...
Jakub Berman. a onetime Stalin hatchetman, was one of the leading old-line Communists. Round-faced, quick-witted, Berman served on the Moscow end of the Polish Communist apparatus until the end of World War II, when he moved into Warsaw. Multilingual Berman lied smoothly to Western reporters in four languages, while he masterminded the ousting of Peasant Party Leader Stanislaw Mikolajczyk in 1947 and the later disbanding of some 100,000 Socialists. It was not clear last week how far Berman has been downgraded, but the effect of his official firing is a victory for the younger party members...