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Whose Coffin Plan? Another McHale client is seeking Government payment for a product it didn't make. This is the Alliance (Ohio) Seamless Casket Co., which claims it developed a new kind of coffin for reburial of American servicemen killed overseas in World War II. It admits that it has no patent, had no contract with and produced no caskets for the Government. The case presented by McHale: the Government saved $12,575,000 by adopting Alliance specifications and giving them to other manufacturers...
...better-paying outfits. Transradio was too successful; U.P., I.N.S. and A.P. realized they had missed a bet in the radio field, began to peddle news themselves, put the squeeze on Transradio. Said Transradio President Robert Moore (brother Herbert branched off into the publishing business in 1942): "We lost one client here and one client there. We just kept getting smaller and smaller...
...Millionaire for Christy (Thor Productions; 20th Century-Fox) falls, with a resounding thud, under the heading of madcap romantic farce. Heroine Christy (Eleanor Parker), a fortune-hunting legal secretary charged with telling a client (Fred MacMurray) that he has inherited $2,000,000, decides to make a favorable impression on the heir apparent before spilling the good news. She impresses him as a lunatic, disrupts his wedding, woos him in a boxcar, wins him with the connivance of a poor but dishonest psychiatrist (Richard Carlson). By the time MacMurray is convinced that the inheritance is actually his, the money...
...established firm name. Yet here was a situation where Bill Boyle's name was scraped off the door, and nobody was supposed to use it at all. Secondly, if Boyle really believed it was improper for a Democratic National Committee employee to represent a client for a fee, then he obviously couldn't have done any work on the cases he sold Siskind for $150,000. If he had not done any work, he was either defrauding Siskind-or getting paid enormous fees just for bringing the cases into the office when he was still the unsalaried boss...
...cigarette case, a suit of clothes, unlimited hospitality, and a week's vacation at a seaside resort from one Sydney Stanley. In return, Belcher helped Stanley around the government, helped his friends get licenses for construction work on a resort hotel and helped quash prosecution of a Stanley client for alleged shady dealings in a gambling pool...