Word: clues
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Plunder of the Sun (Wayne-Fellows; Warner) is an oldtime movie chase story played against a background of ancient Zapotec ruins at Oaxaca, Mexico. A footloose insurance agent (Glenn Ford) comes into possession of several old sheets of parchment which are a clue to a priceless treasure buried among the ruins. In practically no time, he finds himself mixed up with such shady characters as a fat invalid (Francis Sullivan), a raven-haired Latin beauty (Patricia Medina), an alcoholic blonde (Diana Lynn), a mysterious fellow with a crew cut and smoked glasses (Sean McGlory). The feverish chasing is punctuated with...
Beria on Trial. In short, Malenkov was running on a platform of peace and prosperity. It was obvious that Malenkov's policy was dictated partly by internal considerations and the stresses of cold war. A reference to deposed Vice Premier Lavrenty Beria gave a passing clue to a problem obsessing the Soviet leadership: "The fact that this rabid agent of imperialism has been so quickly unmasked, and rendered harmless in time, can in no way be regarded as evidence of the weakening of the Soviet Union." This week the case of Lavrenty Beria was formally turned over...
...corpse of Dagmar Peters was the only clue Scotland Yard's Inspector Robert Fabian had when he arrived on the scene. The man whom the British press calls "the greatest detective in the world" may have been temporarily stymied, but he was not permanently stumped. In this and the 30 other cases he re-enacts in Fabian of the Yard, the inspector relies mostly on elementary, patient common sense and laboratory work, but he flashes enough intuitive genius to hold his own with the best of the fictional homicide squad-Holmes, Maigret, Philo Vance and Nero Wolfe...
...slim, personable Group Captain Peter Wooldridge Townsend, D.S.O., D.F.C., even though his picture had been appearing in the papers alongside Margaret for years. The gossip columnists who had long sought to probe the secrets of the princess' heart simply forgot the Holmesian precept that the most easily overlooked clue is often the most obvious one. As a royal equerry and deputy master of King George VI's household (appointed in 1944 when Margaret was only 14), he had the constant duty of accompanying the royal family in all its lighter moments. Group Captain Townsend rode with the princesses...
That was the drama which confronted Mexican police last week. Quickly, the cops had quite a clue thrust at them: one of the passengers, Jose Alfredo del Valle, 44, was found hanging, a belt around his neck, from a tree in a La Paz park. Cut down and revived, he insisted: "I was just trying to enjoy the view from the tree." The cops showed a picture of Del Valle to the airline clerk in Culiacan. "That," said the clerk, "is the man who called himself Jesus Montes...