Word: crackings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...crack crime reporter, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch's husky Theodore C. Link, 43, knew plenty of crooks-and how to use them. For 22 years, off & on, he had tapped many of them for crime tips, notably the Midwest's ill-famed Shelton brothers. On their part, brothers Carl, Bernie and Earl Shelton, who had terrorized southern Illinois before "retiring" as gentlemen farmers on bootleg and slot-machine fortunes, had a soft spot for the Post-Dispatch. It had once found out about a frame-up plot against them in 1926, and they never forgot it. That...
...knitted brows, quivering nostrils, tossed locks-and tantrumacious bad manners-that cinemaddicts have learned to recognize as signs of artistic genius. The Red Shoes is such a spotty piece of movie craftsmanship that it is hard to believe that it is a major effort by Britain's crack moviemaking team, Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger (Colonel Blimp, I Know Where I'm Going...
...period Saturday it seemed certain that the Varsity would crack Dartmouth wide open. Then three men--Sullivan, Schreck, and Armstrong--and heartbreaking bad luck ruined the Crimson in the next 45 minutes...
...events of the last quarter put the game on ice, but significantly did not crack the Varsity's organization. They grabbed the initiative after the second Green touchdown to roll back down the field; after a wobbly pass was intercepted, they came down again to score, only to have an offside nullify Chip Gannon's fine touchdown run; and at the last, Charley Roche ripped off thirty yards to bring the ball deep into Dartmouth territory before losing it on an attempted lateral...
Sharp's catch seems certain to crack all deepsea fishing records for Harvard undergraduates by a wide margin...