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...Homicide Squad Captain Broderick Crawford, Night club Owner Peter Lorre, and Bodyguard Freddie Steele. They also whisk through a lot of the nicely observed detail which more pretentious movies usually miss. Samples: Duryea 's mannerisms as a dipsomaniac jazz pianist; Michael Brandon showing how a grade-A Hollywood columnist acts, and is treated, on a visit to a grade-B hot spot...
Senator Glen Taylor of Idaho substituted for Columnist Leonard Lyons for a day, managed to fill a column despite a handicap. "To write a gossip column," he explained, "you have to be up and about among lively company. But I have been stuck in Washington for almost two years now and . . . talk is much more interesting in Pocatello...
...eight straight days John Crosby, the New York Herald Tribune's new radio columnist (TIME, Aug. 5), gave what-for to the networks' censors. Some excerpts...
...Democratic Governor Arnold Williams, sneered that he "will no more enforce the laws than he will climb to the top of a flagpole to eat his lunch." Next day the Republican Statesman used an entire editorial column to bail out the Democratic governor and bawl out its free-swinging columnist. Vardis Fisher quit in a huff, looked for another soapbox. Last week, readers who really missed him had to buy a tiny upstart weekly called Statewide (circ. 5,000). Fisher and his new editor were getting along fine...
That gave George Grim, Morning Tribune columnist and oldtime radio actor, an idea: why not keep idle little hands out of mischief with a radio show? Two Minneapolis college stations hopped to it, gave a daily, five-to-six-hour broadcast of games, stories, circus music and the like; then all six Minneapolis commercial stations joined in. As each came to an end of its show, it told moppets to turn to a rival station for more Fun at Home...