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...wreck not only awakens Betty's love for Heston and her organizing genius in effecting the circus's comeback, but unmasks a clown (James Stewart) as a great surgeon who has been hiding behind his make-up for years (and throughout the film) to beat a euthanasia rap...
...even Red's exwife, Mildred (Rockin' Chair) Bailey, kept dropping in. To remind others where they first heard his name, Red Norvo kept salting his half-hour stands with such tunes as Strike Up the Band, Night and Day, Sweet Georgia Brown-songs he used to rap out on his "woodpile" (xylophone) with Paul Whiteman's band 20 years...
...announced in angry exasperation. Dorothy C. Frisbee, a 14-year veteran of the bureau, had admitted to embezzling $5,000 from the employees' credit union. Dunlap signed her suspension order on the spot. In San Francisco, Smyth insisted that he and his men were taking a "bum rap," yet Smyth seemed to have an extraordinarily relaxed attitude toward his job. According to the Kefauver Committee, Smyth was two years late in collecting some of his own income tax. "Hell, I hadn't done anything crooked," he explained. "I didn't pay the tax because I didn...
...responsible boss of U.S. mobilization, Charlie Wilson must expect to take the rap for this delay. As long as six months ago, defense production was obviously lagging; but Wilson was so anxious "not to disturb the civilian economy that defense producers often came in last in the race for scarce materials and skilled manpower. Furthermore, Charlie Wilson thought that he could confine himself to policy matters, let other agencies (Commerce, DPA, Interior, etc.) carry out the job. But the other agencies sometimes worked at cross purposes without firm direction from topside. Now, it looks as if Wilson will need...
Matt had "helped out" before, too, he told the court. In 1949, he and a friend got one of Osborne's clients out of a murder rap by their rehearsed testimony; neither one of them, had been anywhere near the murder. In another case, Lawyer Osborne had pushed toy automobiles around the floor of his office for two hours so that one of Matt's friends would be familiar with the details of an auto-accident case. At Osborne's urging, they signed a bogus eyewitness statement, and the lawyer rubbed it on the floor to make...