Word: cliff
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Before the action ends in a satisfactory bang, there is an uninterrupted spate of sinkings, gunplay, throat-slittings, cliff-hangings, captures and escapes, surrounded by sound technical information. For the young in heart it is great stuff-a first-rate derring-documentary. As in H.M.S. Ulysses, Novelist MacLean sternly eschews sex. A man needs every ounce of strength to punch out novels like this...
...Cliff hanger Van Doren gave his fellow sufferers something special to cheer about -he broke TV's record ($100,000) for big giveaway bonanzas, built his winnings up to $104,500. As a result of it all, Bachelor Van Doren, son of Poet Mark Van Doren,* has become a sort of All-America Ph.D. When he enters his English classroom at Columbia University, his students rise to cheer him. He is being swamped with TV offers and marriage proposals. (A tax expert said he could save $16,000 by getting married this year, and a girl wrote: "I would...
Tribal Rite Playing a qualifying round on the rugged, wind-whipped links at Pebble Beach, Calif., a nervous young Nevada golf pro named Tony Lema tried too hard to recover from a bad lie, took a prodigious swing-and disappeared. He had fallen off an 18-ft. cliff. No one seemed surprised. This was the 16th annual performance of the West Coast tribal rite-complete with fairway high jinks and off-course bottle belting-known as the Bing Crosby National Pro-Amateur Golf Championship. Lema's leap was just the kind of accidental clowning that the crowd had come...
...filled with blankets, food and medicine, took off from the French air-force base at Le Fayet, 20 kilometers down the valley. With an Alpine guide aboard to plot the route, the little plane spotted the climbers on a treacherous northern slope close to the edge of a snow cliff that threatened to break away at any minute. The pilot could not get close enough to drop his supplies. The expedition made another try by helicopter. It was impossible to land the big machine, but the guide dropped his rescue packages to the boys along with a note telling them...
...toughest running drama of suspense and conflict draws a small but influential audience. At Lindy's in Manhattan, bookies take bets on the outcome of each month's cliff hanger, The Ratings. Across town on Madison Avenue, admen ante up with million-dollar chips, and on the same fateful turn, TV shows stake their survival, performers their jobs and networks their reputations. Every eye in TV is firmly fixed on the numbers that do what the batting average does for baseball, the big board for Wall Street and Debrett's for the peerage...