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This week the F.B.I, closed in on Banker Crowe. Getting panicky, he had abandoned his new car, bought another only to abandon it too. He settled down in Daytona Beach, to loll on the beaches and roll around the bars. In a bar they arrested...
...Folger's theatrical debut offered a pointed aside on the National Theater's decision last summer to abandon plays and show movies, rather than accept Actors' Equity's ruling that Negroes must not be barred from the audience. Julius Caesar sold tickets to all applicants, had a sprinkling of Negro customers-and not a hint of a fuss...
...political question. The official said: "I'll answer you, but from now on, you understand, I must use my own vocabulary." Then he began: "As for the imperialist-fascist Western powers attempting to spread their poison within these freedom-loving democracies . . ." Says Low: "At that juncture you either abandon your line of questioning or go away, because you know the standard clichés as well as any Communist...
...opera singlehanded-from horses to Indian smoke signals to bullets ricocheting off a rock. Rubber-faced Imogene Coca is just as funny modeling a moulting fur coat as she is imitating what Broadway columnists sometimes call a "chantootsie." Bouncy Mary McCarty can tear apart a popular song with fine abandon or imitate a female wine-taster getting drunk on the job. As an extra dividend, man & wife dance team Marge & Gower Champion foot their way featly through the hour...
With hundreds of thousands of Long Islanders dependent on it, the Long Island could not be scrapped. But in bringing its stepchild into court, the Pennsy apparently hoped to be permitted to abandon some of its poorest-paying routes to busses and subways, concentrate on making money where its traffic is heaviest, and get the fares boosted once again...