Word: beating
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Allen Drury is a thin-haired reporter who spent 16 competent years on the Capitol Hill beat for United Press, the Washington Evening Star and the New York Times before he unburdened himself of a book. Otto Preminger is a bagel-bald producer-director who has a reputation for outbidding everyone for film rights to bestsellers. Last week Preminger and Drury got together on a deal likely to make cash registers jingle for a long while. Happily counting the returns from his Anatomy of a Murder and preparing to start shooting on Exodus, Preminger bought the rights to Drury...
...Southern California (8-0)-beat Baylor, 17-8, as its massive line, anchored by End Marlin and Guard Mike McKeever (TIME, Oct. 26), gave up only three yards on the ground...
...back and mused: "I think I was born to teach, not to be a college president." J. (for Julius) Seelye Bixler should have known better. Last week, as his successor prepared to take over solid little Colby College, retiring President Bixler's 17-year record looked hard to beat...
Inheritance Tax. In Los Angeles, Mary L. Hoffman, 48, asked for a divorce from Husband No. 2 because he beat her with a jockey whip, a souvenir from Husband...
Victory is within his grasp. Will he permit it to be snatched from him by the villain (Herbert Lorn), a sneery guide from the neighboring valley who sneaks off in the predawn darkness to beat him to the top? The last reel of the picture finds him chasing the wretch up what purports to be (but obviously is not) the sheer east face of the Matterhorn, in an exhibition of freehanded folly that made one old Alpinist who saw the picture snicker and inquire: "Why not do it on roller skates? It's just as safe...