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...perilously late in the season-the Giants were 13½ out of the lead on Aug. 11. But in a wild and breathless finish, they tied the Dodgers on the last day of the season, beat them in the playoff for the pennant, with Bobby Thomson's last-ditch "Home Run Heard 'Round the World." When they lost the World Series to the Yankees, the Giants comforted themselves with thoughts of next year...
...that way with Lew Archer, quick-thinking, fast-moving hero of John Ross Macdonald's Find a Victim. Tooling along a California highway on the way to Sacramento, he saw "the ghastliest hitchhiker who ever thumbed me. He rose on his knees in the ditch. His eyes were black holes in his yellow face, his mouth a bright smear of red like a clown's painted grin." Archer got him to a motel, but when the fellow died at the hospital, Archer had no intention of calling it quits. Almost before Tony Aquista's body had cooled...
...these sacrifices mean? Leaning against his desk, he said earnestly: "The people who know war, those that experienced it . . . I believe we are the most earnest advocates of peace in the world. I believe those people that talk about peace academically but who never had to dive into a ditch when a 109 came over-they really don't know what...
...museum. Unfortunately, the-public museum from which its beauty stemmed in time grew suspicious. Recently, on a tip from the museum, police raided John's house and found it furnished with some 2,000 objets d'art pilfered over the past 24 years. John did his last-ditch best to save some of the pieces by stuffing them into a vacuum cleaner or hiding them in a toilet tank, but it did no good: in fact, by this last-minute greediness some valuable items were ruined. The police hauled the rest of the lovely things back...