Word: derek
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Frederick Henry ("Derek") Curtis-Bennett, 52, pudgy, bespectacled defense counsel for some of Britain's most notorious lawbreakers, among them: Traitor William ("Lord Haw-Haw") Joyce, Multiple Murderer John Christie. Atom Spy Klaus Fuchs; of acute alcoholism, less than three months after the suicide of his pretty, 26-year-old second wife; in London...
...DEREK L. T. GILL Queenstown, South Africa...
Essentially, the film chronicles the triumph of British pluck over Levantine cunning. On one side are ranked wholesome Terence Morgan and his fellow painters (Derek Bond and Paul Rogers); on the other looms the hypnotic Svengali (oldtime Shakespearean Actor Donald Wolfit). who drifts about the screen in tattered clothes, rather like a grounded crow. In between is Hildegarde Neff, who makes Trilby, the Irish artist's model, exactly the "great, beautiful, stupid cow" of a woman that Du Maurier intended...
...Pace-Setter Chris Chataway, the man who used to make a business of helping other runners hang up records, hung up a world-beater for himself. At London's White City stadium, Chataway swapped pacing chores every quarter mile with his countryman Derek Ibbotson, took off on his own in the last half mile of a three-mile race and broke the tape in 13:23.2-3.2 seconds faster than the record held by Russia's Vladimir...
...this time Jimmy is beginning to think that Derek can't be trusted. After the Comanches massacre most of the badmen for him, Cagney tracks Derek and Borgnine to their lair, disposes of both (with some last-minute help from Derek, who has had still another change of heart), and returns to Viveca Lindfors and a happy ending...