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Word: dials (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Write Me a Murder, by Frederick Knott, marks the Broadway spot where a superior mystery thriller may be found. In the course of a suspenseful evening, Playwright Knott (Dial "M" for Murder) shows that it takes almost as much skill to write the perfect crime as to commit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Nov. 17, 1961 | 11/17/1961 | See Source »

Write Me a Murder, by Frederick Knott, marks the Broadway spot where a superior mystery thriller may be found. In the course of a suspenseful evening, Playwright Knott (Dial "M" for Murder) shows that it takes almost as much skill to write the perfect crime as to commit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Nov. 10, 1961 | 11/10/1961 | See Source »

Write Me a Murder (by Frederick Knott) gives away its murderer (James Donald) in Act I without defrosting any of its suspense as a superior spine-chiller. British Playwright Knott, of Dial "M" for Murder fame, has worked a twist on the conventional whodunit by fashioning a will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Chilly Will-he-do-it | 11/3/1961 | See Source »

Recorded prayers and messages of inspiration for the spiritually hungry have been part of the weaponry of big-city churches for a long time. Now the Redemptorist Fathers of the Holy Ghost Church in suburban Houston have devised a new telephonic treat: "Dial-a-Saint...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Dial-a-Saint | 10/20/1961 | See Source »

...dialing MOhawk 7-8383 a maximum of 220 callers an hour can hear a message tied to the saint whose day it is. Sample: "Too many of us have never learned the love of solitude in today's busy world. Our hero for today, St. Bruno, rebukes our ceaseless activity in the midst of people." At the end comes a commercial: a short reminder that Dial-a-Saint is presented by George H. Lewis & Sons, funeral directors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Dial-a-Saint | 10/20/1961 | See Source »

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