Word: ghosts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...more varied jobs for years. An exodus of the remaining young families would be the killing blow. The post office, the general store, the snow plow and even the daily ferry would stop. The island, still populated by descendants of its 17th century settlers, would become a ghost town...
...hide an ineffective dealer organization or a poor product." Bidwell obviously thinks he has the right products. "Little cars and luxury cars are selling well," he notes, "and we happen to be one of the few divisions that have both." Lincoln-Mercury, it seems, has finally exorcised the ghost of the Edsel...
...intent was to make a "realistic" western in which a little sporadic violence would uncoil naturally, like a rattler surprised during a desert snooze. The time is about 1880 and the place is a sleazy little ghost town in New Mexico country. Three drifters-Collings (Fonda), Harris (Warren Gates) and Dan (Robert Pratt)-drift into it. Dan is gunned down by a mean, sneaky killer named McVey (Severn Darden). Collings and Harris push on to the farm of the wife Collings had deserted six years before. The wife, Hannah (Verna Bloom), takes on the pair as hired hands...
...past six years, Bantam Books has reprinted 61 of the 181 Doc Savage stories that first appeared between 1933 and 1945; No. 62, The Pirate's Ghost, will hit the racks next week. The 10.5 million copies now in print have realized about $4.5 million in sales. Doc Savage fan clubs have sprung up and three producers have been negotiating for film and television rights. "We've struck into a bronze mine," Bantam's Marc Jarre explains. "Publishing one a month, we've got six years to go in the series. Then we can start over...
...describes how "the devil came to me" and tempted her to return to speed. She had kept some in hand just in case, but she was up to the temptation: "I took it, flushed it down the John in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost." Former Houston Speed Freak Terry Vincent says: "Man, God turned me around from the darkness to the light. That's all I know. That is all I want to know...