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...first brisk winds of fall have brought the chilling news to student car-owners that local police are evidently resolved to crack down on all-night parking in city streets. Armed with a spanking new ordinance, officers are ready to haul away offending vehicles faster than Henry Kaiser can turn them out at Willow...
Town House (adapted from John Cheever's stories by Gertrude Tonkonogy; produced by Max Gordon) is one more comedy about the housing shortage-and on the whole, one too many. Despite George S. Kaufman's brisk direction and amusing performances by Mary Wickes and Hiram Sherman, it is much oftener forced than funny, and the more the playwrighting falters, the lower the playwright stoops...
...Harried by competition from brisk, unscheduled Trans Caribbean Airways, Pan Am last week made one of the industry's steepest cuts. To lure passengers on its Puerto Rican run it instituted a "coach" service. By ripping out the galley and some baggage racks, it now puts 63 (v. 52) passengers into its DC-4 planes, has cut the one-way fare from $133 to $75 (plus...
...midriff. But not before her shrewd playing has made Tory a wench to be remembered. Larceny ends on a sad note, because sharp direction and dialogue have made its crooks into likable lads who seem to be getting a raw deal. This medium-budget picture's brisk, realistic details may make its manufacturers a tidy profit...
...that Ana gave evidence against him. Without flinching over Marcel's fate, Ana became a member of the Comintern Executive. She was one of the signatories of the protocol "dissolving" the Third International. One day at a meeting she attracted the attention of Andrei Vishinsky for her brisk delivery of a report. Vishinsky took her to see Stalin...