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After James Millstone learned that his automobile insurance was about to be canceled, he traced his trouble to his credit rating; he had apparently been given a black mark by O'Hanlon Reports Inc. of New York. Under the federal Fair Credit Reporting Act, he was entitled to have access to "the nature and substance of all the credit information." But Millstone was told by O'Hanlon's St. Louis office that his file was on its way to New York. Eventually, he was read a partial summary, which tagged him as "very much disliked by neighbors...
Enraged, Millstone, an assistant managing editor of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, went to court. There, evidence made it clear that the file-in-New York story-plus a rule that the consumer himself could not read the summary or even touch it-were standard O'Hanlon techniques for dealing with inquiries. In addition, O'Hanlon's investigator, who earned $1.85 for his efforts, actually interviewed only one neighbor and failed to verify what he was told...
There were two especially nice solos, one a comic piece, the other a study of mood. In the first, Marcia Hanlon cooked "A Bun in the Oven" with such ecstasy that she couldn't resist kissing the floor and falling in love with her knife. In "Shawl Turning Dawn," Rylin Malone, very tall and beautiful, beckoned dawn in the Near East, accompanied by a wonderful flute...
Muffy is wistfully jealous of her friend's maturity and develops a crush on a preppy heartbreaker. When he spurns her, she turns back to the steady, unexciting Malcolm (George O'Hanlon Jr.). They abandon their virginity on Christmas Eve with all of the uncertainty but none of the accomplishment that characterized Abby's liaison. Muffy blames it all on her never-ending bad luck, the consequences of which approach sentimental catastrophe when she becomes pregnant...
George O'Hanlon Jr. is fine as the gawky Malcolm, loyal in his affections but too young to see in Muffy the real puzzlement and desperation that she herself does not understand...