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...enough for the House and Senate investigating committees, whose guns were primed for just such game. Compared with Harry Truman's friend Ed Pauley, who had 500,000 bushels of grain and a lot of other commodities (TIME, Dec. 22), the White House physician was a relatively small target, but he was probably in for some congressional pot-shooting, nevertheless...
Meet the Press (Fri. 10 p.m., Mutual). Target: Secretary of Agriculture Clinton P. Anderson...
...prettily dressed and decorated. Sylvia Sidney, as the target for tonight, and John Hodiak, as the maniac, play it as if they 1) wished they were elsewhere, but 2) felt that they owed some kind of minimum to their employers and their conscience as craftsmen. Supporting players are given to lines like "Yon storm'll be upon us main soon."*Others merely curtsy, mew incoherently or tug their forelocks. For what it is worth-a middling curdler-the whole thing was much better done in 1937 by Basil Rathbone and Ann Harding...
...marched into a South Side garage with two pals and killed an old friend who had turned stool pigeon. The trio then loaded four witnesses into a car. Daley broke the monotony of a long drive along icy roads by shooting them and shoving them out. When the last target was gone he went calmly to bed. The cops woke him up and mowed him down. too. The score: four dead, two wounded...
...Lamplit Target. The excitement, color, and fighting of Ben-Hur, though set in the Rome of the early Christian martyrs, came out of Wallace's own vivid experience, says Biographer McKee. He had been stimulated to think out his own religious convictions to answer the century's famed atheist, Colonel Robert G. Ingersoll. It took him seven years to write the novel. When three-quarters of the book was finished, he was recalled to New Mexico. Wallace worked on Ben-Hur in the governor's mansion at Santa Fe, an old building with grime-covered walls, rain...