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...lumberman named Thomas L. Madden to drive him to Middleton, had taken Madden into the bank as a hostage, and was doing fine. He winged a defiant cashier, then threatened to kill a customer, and in the end picked up $10,000. But when he backed out for the getaway, it seemed that half the people in town were waiting. "It was just bang, bang, bang," said an awestruck witness. "It sounded like the Battle of Shiloh. Rifles, shotguns, pistols. Everybody in town had guns...
Andy's getaway on the second heat was a poled jump. She was still jumping eight gates down, cutting the corners high, racing with her skis flat rather than losing time by edging them for more control. She fairly whistled with speed as she zipped across a bridge, cut in & out of a hairpin turn. The knowing crowd was yelling itself hoarse; no one had ever seen anything quite like it. Andy's time: 1:03.4, a full two seconds faster than any of the world's best women skiers had been able...
...This world war has in fact begun!" Nobody got panicky, for the U.S. had for a long time suspected that this might be true. With a heave of its shoulders, the nation pulled itself together, wistfully pushed from mind the delightful thought that the "rarest emergency" was just a getaway race with the next V-8 when the traffic light flicked to green...
...Light Touch (MGM) opens with a deft lesson in the art of stealing an old master's painting from a crowded Italian museum. A self-contained little thriller, from the planning to the getaway, this sequence is plotted and timed as neatly as the theft itself. It also pegs the film's picaresque hero without a wasted motion. Stewart Granger is the Raffles of art-clever, nonchalant, cynically aware that the painting is on loan from a church altar, so thoroughgoing a rascal that he not only carries on an affair with his henchman's wife...
Rush Hour. In Manhattan, making a quick getaway from the store he had robbed, William Clark hopped into a cab which already had a passenger: Patrolman Michael Fox, who was trailing Clark...