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...stresses its characters stereotypes (the comic Italians and wasted dames) and facile aural editorializing (braying trombones, in case you didn't catch the blatant ironies in the dialogue) that the exaggeration almost becomes a style, as it surely does in Spillane's writing. This was 1955, when director Robert Aldrich's consistent coarseness was brave and bracing in Hollywood, rather than routine...
...Some things Aldrich and screenwriter A.I. Bezzerides kept from the book: a secret message from a dead woman; a scene where Mike slams a desk drawer shut on the fingers of a suspect; the slapping around of an Athletic Club guard; and the ultimate villain (who goes up in flames). But they changed the Mafia to an, I don't know, atomic-weapons gang. It's as if the Rosenbergs didn't give the Russians the plans for a bomb but the bomb itself. They also perverted the relationship of Hammer and his police buddy, Pat Chambers. Wesley Addy...
...that if the press learned that I received a Harvard degree after defying the McCarthy Committee, Harvard would suffer grave embarrassment,” Kamin wrote.In August 1954, the Senate voted contempt citations against both men, and in December a federal grand jury indicted them.In April 1955, Judge Bailey Aldrich ’28 ordered a trial. Applause for McCarthy led the judge to declare a mistrial for Kamin in October.One month later, Aldrich acquitted Kamin of two counts of his indictment, and in January 1956, he acquitted him on all six counts.In June 1956, the U.S. government dropped charges...
...little as $20.10/24: A head-on auto collision kills a 38 year-old woman and injures two students. A rise in tuition is predicted a day later: $1000 high. Endowment hits new high: $442M.10/31: The business school broadens the scope of the student aid fund. Four days later, Aldrich acquits Kamin on two accounts, two remain.11/5: The chem department hopes to exapand the Mallinckrodt lab in the spring. A week later, it was announced that Lamont will stay open until midnight. 11/16: The divinity school projects an enrollment high of 300. A student petition for extended parietals hours...
...lead over the Crimson and had a slight advantage over Navy early, and the three boats jostled back and forth throughout the course.“I still think that had we raced a little better race we could have gotten second,” varsity bow-man Brian Aldrich said. “But with the way Cornell rowed today—it would have been tough for us to hang with them.”The race for second reached its zenith in the final 500 meters, when Navy, Harvard, and Yale appeared in a near-deadlock...