Word: hammering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Blodgett, former Exeter track captain, starred for the Yardlings, winning the 60-yard high hurdles and the pole vault. First place in the 35-pound hammer throw was taken by Stan Doten. Harvey Brickman won the high jump and Jared Fitzgerald took first in the two-mile...
Spillane's Hammer: He had the old familiar flair for violence and the leer for sex. And, true to fiction, Private Eye Mike Hammer was soon mixed up with a wild-eyed client and a wide-eyed doll. When the shooting was over, the client lay dead on the waterfront and the doll was off to the electric chair. "You burn me up," she murmured to Hammer as she was taken away. "No," Mike gently corrected, "the warden does that...
...York audience to the second of a 39-show series of half-hour programs based on the sadistic, satyric, free-lance detective created by Mickey ("I'm not an author, I'm a writer") Spillane. Soon to be shown by 122 stations, the series entangles Hammer with every evil from white slavery to the wayward son of a chambermaid. A onetime tailback for the College of the Pacific, Actor McGavin looks natural tossing heavies down flights of stairs and giving the leather to fallen enemies. But his performances as a whole are curiously uneven. In the first show...
Spillane fans, used to getting their sex right out of Gray's Anatomy, will have to settle for shots of Hammer emerging messily from off-camera, off-color encounters with negligeed women. But the other Spillane requisites that have sold close to 30 million copies of his seven novels are preserved: furious action, a complex plot, a wow finish. Still, Spillane wants no part of the new series except his fee ($25,000 and a cut of the receipts). "The real Mike Hammer sits back and laughs at his own show," he laughs, sitting back. "How about that! Sits...
...from parading across holy ground, the procession stops at the churchyard fence-but not necessarily the propaganda. Not long ago the priest of Ruina Ferrarese (pop. 800) found that at least one gravestone in the cemetery behind his tiny church was decorated not with a cross but with hammer and sickle...