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Alfred Hitchcock once said that it would be an interesting experiment to make a Keystone Cop sequence--the regular stuff, with the cops running around batting one another and everyone else on the head; and then suddenly, without any warning, to shift the mood--have one of the cops thrown out on the street, blood pouring from his face, his body writhing in agony. Hitchcock was interested in seeing what the audience's reaction would be. Though Preston Sturges undoubtedly had different motives, it is precisely this sort of thing that he does in "Sullivan's Travels." If at times...
...very real threat. What would the Islands' Japanese do then? Islanders who remembered that Jap high-school boys from Hawaii had helped pilot the planes that attacked Pearl Harbor looked uneasily at Hawaii's Japanese thousands going freely, imperturbably about their business. What about the houseboy, the cop on the corner, the farmer down the road? What about the Japs set to guard the Islands...
...labor history of Mr. Fay goes back to the day he left Troy, N.Y., where he was shot by a cop in a quarrel. He moved to New Jersey and joined a local union of A.F. of L. hoisting engineers...
...token payment" by Mexico, other compensation to be determined if possible by one U.S. and one Mexican appraiser) it left them no effective out. They could hardly appeal again to the State Department. Said one oilman: "We'd be like a woman raped by a policeman calling the cop...
LaGuardia is a slim favorite to cop today's election. If he does so, it will mark a notable victory for local democracy over the smooth efficiency of a top-notch political machine. The whole election represents a satisfying change from the local mayoralty campaign, in which there are neither clear-cut issues nor outstanding candidates...