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...reporting, San Francisco Chronicle's George de Carvalho, who was born in Hong Kong and knows San Francisco's Chinatown intimately. He was the first to expose the Chinese Communist extortion racket (TIME, Nov. 26 et seq.). After Carvalho reported that Chinese-Americans were being bilked for ransom to get their relatives out of jail in Red China, federal investigators went after the racket...
...Atomic City (Paramount) is a neat little B-budget thriller of grade-A caliber about G-men hunting down H-bomb spies. The fun begins when foreign agents kidnap a nuclear physicist's son and hold him for a ransom in atomic formulas. The cops & robbers story is an old formula itself, but the tightly knit screenplay bristles with tingling action and intriguing mechanical devices used by the FBI operatives to track down the criminals: car-to-car telephones, kinescope, television cameras with zoom lenses...
...lectures and symposiums make up the collection of 30-minute tapes that has been assembled. Included in the collection are T. S. Eliot's Theodore Spencer Memorial Lecture on "Poetry and Drama," and the 1950 Harvard Summer School Poetry Conference, with readings by Stephen Spender, John Ciardi, John Crowe Ransom, and Marianne Moore...
...varsity polo team dropped its last match of a winless winter season, losing to Yale, 17 to 6, in New Haven yesterday. Two seniors, Jerry Ianelli and Bruce Bogin, and two sophomores, Bob Ransom and Al Marggia played for the Crimson...
...Ransomed Poet. Gilbert was the older of the two by six years, and a personal devil of quiddity seems to have rocked his earliest cradle. At the age of two, while on a trip to Italy with his parents, he was snatched from his nurse's arms by two Neapolitan toughs, and held for a ransom of ?25. Papa paid. As Author Baily observes, "it was a bargain...