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After Dark. One night in 1944 a lawyer named Pietro Monni stopped in the lonely gorge to ask help in fixing the leak in his bicycle tire, and stayed for the night. Carolina's mother heard a shot. "I got up and saw my husband carrying out a big bundle-a sheet with a human foot hanging out." Three years later another bicyclist stopped, and did not live the night. This time Carolina's terrified mother summoned her courage and notified the police. At the trial Picchioni brazenly confessed to two more murders, and a dozen others were...
...stones based on a garbled leak from a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing, the Washington press corps propagated the apparently indestructible myth that Wilson said: "What's good for General Motors is good for the country." The official transcript of the hearing released later, showed that what Wilson really said was: "I thought what was good for our country was good for General Motors, and vice versa. But the impact of the first stories was never overcome by the fact, and probably never will be. To its credit, the Washington Post reported the story correctly from the start...
...Frustrated by his menial life, he photographs the documents and sells the film to the incredulous Nazis. While he amasses roughly two hundred thousand pounds in weekly installments, both Berlin and London bureaucrats are so mystified that they neither put the secret information to use, nor stop the security leak. And there is a woman. She gets her just desserts when the money which Mason got from the Germans is found to be counterfeit. Despite utter defeat in love and finance, he just laughs an ironic laugh, and in doing so achieves the maturity...
...Allen on Hollywood: "California is a wonderful place to live-if you're an orange"; on broadcasting: "The scales have not been invented fine enough to weigh the grain of sincerity in radio"; on studio audiences: "When I look at them, I think there must be a slow leak in Iowa...
...turn away 40 others for lack of space. The line for the 10:30 a.m. conference began forming at 7:50 a.m., when Newman Wright of the Passaic, N.J. Herald-News arrived. Under rules set by Presidential Press Secretary James C. Hagerty to prevent any leak before the conference ended, the Secret Service men frisked some women's large handbags for signaling devices. As an extra precaution, while the conference was on, they emptied the telephone booths in the corridor outside the room; legmen assigned to hold telephones had to wait outside the booths...