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...tool company.) Even during his last hours as boss of RKO, Hughes remained in character: the signing took place around midnight; Hughes, in tennis shoes, temporarily misplaced the down payment check (about $2,000,000); he insisted on a last-minute conference with his lawyer in a clothes closet...
...most popular pictures at the show was Kenneth Davies' Pocusmania, a fool-the-eye, symbol-filled closet of everyday objects weirdly misplaced. Also on hand was Davies' quieter piece of realism, The Bookcase...
Then came the payoff. In Amsterdam last week, Albert Besnard, a naval affairs editor, of the daily Algemeen Handelsblad, read Le Monde's "document" and thought it had a vaguely familiar ring. Digging into his closet, Besnard found some old copies of the Proceedings of the U.S. Naval Institute. In the September 1950 issue he found an article by Commander Anthony Talerico, U.S.N., entitled "Sea of Decision." Almost word for word, many parts of it were identical with the so-called "Fechteter report." Instead of being a state paper, the arguments were the hazy theorizing of an unknown junior...
...Thomas Merton and Christopher Isherwood. Moreover, the idea seems to have been to pick the most sedate examples of advance-guard writing that could be found. The result is that, while highbrow esoterica is avoided, so is highbrow boldness. Only one piece is downright bad: Tennessee Williams' tasteless closet drama about D. H. Lawrence. The rest read comfortably enough, but seldom sparkle...
...Brother may be watching the Russians, but Somebody Else may be watching you. Thanks to the "benefits" of modern science, the FBI can plant hidden cameras in your closet, dictaphones in your desk, television transmitters in your flues, and wire-recorders in the willows of your local park. Teams of smooth-swift-silent young men can top your phone, read your lips, and trail you around town in phony Howard Johnson trucks. Columbia's Walk East on Beacon shows how these methods were used to crack a Communist spy ring. Its generally authentic exposition of espionage operations and FBI sleuth...