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...both fugitives were rounded up next day. Complained their involuntary host: "They were completely devoid of a sense of humor." But Poet Engle, far from humorless, is now, according to his friends, perfectly situated to write a farce version of The Desperate Hours, presumably with some very realistic Ransom of Red Chief overtones...
...Ransom of Red Chief (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Abetted by the network, Scriptwriter Phil Reisman Jr. has tampered inexcusably with O. Henry's hilarious tale of the kidnaping of a young hellion. With William Bendix, Hans Conried, and Mickey Rooney's nine-year-old son Teddy...
Bribes & Calls. Richest ground for spying is the U.S. oil industry, where geological maps command a king's ransom. The Harvard surveyors found that one oilman was paying geologists from five competing companies $500 each a month to feed him undercover information. At another company, a switchboard operator intercepted long-distance calls between executives, heard when and where the company planned to buy leases, sold the tips to an outside broker, who grabbed up the leases. In Casper, Wyo., an oil executive quit without turning in his office keys, later was caught fingering through secret maps in another executive...
...wrote for a magazine, "The Fugitives," which ran for three years. Also working for it were John Crowe Ransom, Robert Penn Warren, Donald Davidson and William Yandell Elliott, Harvard Summer School director...
Disastrous Comedy. At first, Aimee was thought to have drowned, and two people died in the search for her body. Then Ma Kennedy began to receive ransom notes from alleged kidnapers, and their language read suspiciously like Aimee's own phrasemaking. Finally, 36 days after she disappeared, Aimee reappeared early one morning in the Mexican border town of Agua Prieta, babbling that she had escaped from her kidnapers and wandered all day and night in the desert heat. But her shoes were unscuffed, and she was neither sweaty nor thirsty after her ordeal. Nor was she ever able...