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...passel of furtive folk vigorously committing homicide to get hold of a bejeweled statuette of a falcon may sound old-hat to present-day cinemagoers, but Director John Huston makes their melodramatic activities as immediate as a shot in a dark room. His characters keep close to Hammett's originals, who in turn are so close to real life that what is constantly about to happen to them (and often does) becomes at times downright unbearable...
...average quiz show is a combination of sciolism, whimsey, trick queries and old-hat puns. But flourishing in Baltimore now is a question-&-answer program designed to enlighten as well as entertain. Known as Quiz the Scientist, aired Tuesdays at 7:45 p.m. over WBAL, the Baltimore show publicizes the activities of the Maryland Academy of Sciences, was put together five months ago by Academy Director Dr. J. Wallace Page in collaboration with a WBAL continuity writer named Vera Johnson. Feature of Quiz the Scientist is its formidable permanent board, which includes such lights as Dr. Robert Williams Wood, famed...
...aware of the U. S. people's yen to do something, somehow, if only somebody would tell them what, is Chief of Staff George C. Marshall. Lately he has been swamped by thousands of letters and phone calls from misguided patriots, each with a breathless suggestion (almost invariably old-hat to the War Department) of how to speed up or bolster Defense. General Marshall is a patient man, but he has a job to do; such letters could better go to the President's new Defense Commission. One thing he is dead set against is turning the Regular...