Word: gun
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...live near the theater, and put two and two together. I'll stay here with your wife and kids-and don't try anything if you want them safe." Powell left. "I called home at 8 a.m. Stella was all right. He was there, with the gun on her. I called again in the afternoon. Everything was the same. All day I wanted to call the police. But I was so afraid something would happen to Stella and the kids. I worked like normal. I worked through...
...Gun on the Hip. Sent next to Guatemala, where Communists were fastening their grip on that Caribbean republic, he spent one long evening with President Jacobo Arbenz and cabled Washington: "If he isn't a Communist, he'll do until a better one comes along." When the anti-Arbenz pressure exploded into revolution last year, Peurifoy, sport-shirted and packing a pistol, maneuvered the rival revolutionary chieftains into an agreement and averted a nasty civil war. As the U.S. saluted the ouster of Guatemala's Communists as a major victory, ambitious Jack Peurifoy was off to Bangkok...
...Anthony Quinn shows a wily nobility, and young Franco Interlenghi as Ulysses' son gives real substance to his role of a stubborn adolescent. Kirk Douglas is more at home in the acrobatics of his part than in its subtleties, and occasionally seems tempted to reach for a Tommy gun instead of a sword. Yet, like the others, he often responds to Director Mario Camerini's neat combination of archaic flavor and modern pace. Technicolor, deft costuming and set decoration help immeasurably in creating the dreamlike quality of mankind's heroic...
...second pass Koelsch spotted Wilkins. "He dropped the sling and I got into it. The North Koreans had every damn gun they had firing. Frankly, it was so bad I would rather have taken my chances at staying on the ground . . ." When Wilkins was dangling about three feet off the ground, another blast of Communist fire struck the hovering whirlybird and it crashed to the ground. "The chopper's door opened, and I saw Jack Koelsch and George Neal hanging upside down in their belts. 'Are you O.K.?' I yelled at them. 'Never mind that...
...eleven days, and then he has a novel. He has written one in as little as 25 hours, gets edgy if it takes as long as two weeks. He seldom has a plot or a story in mind when he starts, but his thinking keeps up with the machine-gun speed of his typewriter once he begins. Disparagingly he has said: "I write fast because I do not have the brains to write slow." But he does believe there is no reason why fast writing has to be bad writing. Now 52, he has left the U.S., where he lived...