Word: fishermen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hitchhiker (The Filmakers; RKO Radio) is a crisp little thriller inspired by the real-life story of Billy Cook, who in 1951 killed six people on a transcontinental murder spree. The picture opens with a couple of Mexico-bound vacationing fishermen (Edmond O'Brien and Frank Lovejoy) picking up a hitchhiker (William Talman), who turns out to be an escaped convict and murderer. It ends with the Mexican police closing in on the killer and his intended victims just in the nick of time...
...Northwesterner-among them lean, soft-spoken Berne Jacobsen, 46, city editor of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer-the mountains are a vital part of life. When he was younger, Jacobsen went north in the Jack London tradition, to the greater ranges of Alaska, and later wrote of handloggers, prospectors, coastal fishermen. By the time his only child, Keith, was born, Jacobsen was claimed by the chores of the city room. But as the boy grew, the father found time to take him into the mountains on innumerable weekend trips...
...beans out to ferment and dry in the midday sun. The retail trade is handled by the "mammy-traders"-fat old market women, usually illiterate but smart enough to own and operate fleets of heavy trucks. Day & night, the "mammy-trucks" thunder down to the sprawling shantytown ports where fishermen put to sea in dugout canoes. The trucks bear striking legends: "The Lord Is My Shepherd-I Don't Know Why"; "Accra to Takoradi-With God's Help Anything Is Possible...
...small, brightly lighted Paris room, a group of connoisseurs intently studied a small canvas-a sunny Italian seascape dotted with boats and fishermen. After a second, a hawk-eyed old man in the center of the group shook his head. "False," he growled. "It was never executed by Corot. Take it away." Paris' celebrated art expert, 73-year-old Andre Schoeller, had just pronounced judgment on one more fake in the outbreak of art frauds that has plagued Paris since...
Late the following night, as the Combinatie churned her way through the Mediterranean about 15 miles off the coast of Spain, a loud crash jarred the darkness and the ship heeled dangerously. "Clumsy fishermen," grunted the captain. Before he could bring his ship to a stop, the door of the wheelhouse burst open and a crowd of hooded men shoved their way in, pointing submachine guns. One of them, speaking English, ordered the captain to sit on the floor. Another snapped handcuffs on him. Cornelius rushed up from the engine room. The pirates covered him as well. Then...