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...happened last summer, when Graton had dropped his cable into Old Faithful, to study the temperature of the world's most famous geyser. Suddenly his instruments tripped some unknown underground trigger, and Old Faithful-- which had faithfully erupted every 63 minutes since the Indians found it--blew its top 15 minutes too soon. Graton and his party didn't know the geyser was loaded, but they backed out of the way before anyone was hurt...
...Jackson nimbly precipitates a commonplace situation into quiet mystery, then active horror. "The Lottery" is an allegory, and a fine one: it cuts too close to the heart of people and their customs to be anything much else. You can also take it as a straight dose of hair-trigger shock, if you'd rather. The story does quite as well either way and makes Miss Jackson's book worth reading...
Thomas Finletter, 55, a Philadelphia-born Wall Street lawyer (son and grandson of judges) with a trigger-quick mind, served as ECA's chief in Britain. Reticent, hardheaded and caustic-humored, Finletter has been called "the little acid drop." The British did not mind his sharpness. Said one appreciative Whitehaller, lifting his eyes to the ceiling: "If only all the people we had to deal with were like Finletter...
...angriest reaction came from trigger-tempered Ross Siragusa of Admiral Radio, who got wind that the ad was to run and fired a volley of telegrams to newspapers warning them to check with the FCC before running it. Eleven of the 41 newspapers in Zenith's schedule canceled the ad. The TV-station-owning Detroit News ran it, but also published an answer. Gist of the News''s retort: "Anyone . . . who denies himself . . . the thrill of television because of 'frequency changes' could grow old and grey waiting for the change that may never come...
...imagines that she is going to help him break away from his job as legal chore boy for a gang of hoodlums; instead, she helps frame him for murder. When he manages to escape from the guard who is carting him off to prison, the gang's trigger man catches up with him. This leads to the most gruesome of the movie's assortment of gruesome scenes: Scott and the kindhearted girl (Dorothy Malone) who has hidden him are parked on a lonely roadside while a gangster cheerfully digs a grave to dump them in. A gentler touch...