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Regarding the ransom paid to Castro for the Bay of Pigs fiasco, should not the label have been "In the Red" rather than "In the Black" [March...
Last week Merck & Co. of Rahway, N.J., which committed $2,500,000 worth of its goods to the ransom, announced that it figured to come out ahead after taking its tax deductions. Just how much ahead, Merck did not say; in any event, the company said that it plans to turn over the profits to charity, on behalf of medical research...
...Statler-Hilton hotel for its annual roasting by the 50 newsmen of the Gridiron Club. Just about every big shot in earshot got done to a turn. But the griddle was never hotter than when Attorney General Robert Kennedy was asked about his refinement of the art of Cuban ransom raising...
Some day I'll ransom...
...nonsensical events: a minister (Robert Preston), disguised as a jewel thief and accompanied by a hotel chambermaid (Eileen Heckart). coaxes an invalided gentlewoman (Glynis Johns) into letting him sell her pearls and kidnap her for ransom. The trio lives it up globally on the loot before coming to rest in a desert outpost of empire where a bean-brained colonel (Cyril Ritchard) and a versatile private (David Wayne) in Bedouin regalia, a la T. E. Lawrence, dizzily keep the pax Britannica...