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Songwriter Palmer, 50, whose last song was this spring's You Dreamer You, had gotten used to thinking of his Silver Dollar as a rumpus-room standard, but no bestseller. Says he: "I am as surprised as anyone...
...faced hospital authorities scrabbled through their records to see how MacLeod had gotten away with his fraud. Born in Ste. Cecile, Quebec, he had gone to grade school in Maine and almost finished high school in Ste. Cecile. Between odd clerical jobs he served a hitch in the U.S. Army. In 1941 he rejoined the Army and was assigned to the Medical Corps. Private MacLeod read every medical book in sight, carefully noted the Army medics' talk and techniques. At war's end, self-taught "Dr. MacLeod" felt ready for professional duties...
Suspense (Thurs. 9 p.m., CBS). Joseph Gotten in Fly by Night...
...first duty after graduation was on the battleship South Carolina, which had only one Atlantic convoy job and was otherwise used for training. When the Navy sent out its first postwar call for academy graduates to take flight training at Pensacola, Radford jumped at the chance, and might have gotten into the first Pensacola class if his ship had not been in Honduras. He made the second class, and got his "bird" (pilot's wings) as Naval Aviator No.2896...
...blonde, of course, melts under this treatment and adores Cagney; whenever he scores a coup against the law, she is as thrilled as a housewife whose husband has just gotten a raise. Then Cagney charms a flighty society heiress (Helena Carter) into eloping with him and, at her father's urging, plans to take charge of her $30 million. In a jealous swivet, the moll begins throwing things like coffee pots and Jeroboams of champagne, finally throws a couple of slugs into her wayward gunman. Long before that point, enough brutality, bravado and dime-novel sex have been ladled...