Word: hooks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...roused the countryside. A State police plane roared overhead. Coast Guard cutters put-putted up & down river. Bloodhounds sniffed along the western shore. It was still only 9 a.m. when William Mullen, veteran woodsman and member of the Palisades Interstate Park Police, leading a posse along the side of Hook Mountain, heard a noise in the brush and saw a flash of white shirt. "You're surrounded," a posseman hollered. "Put up your hands." All fight gone out of them, Riordan and McGale stumbled out, gave...
...Gold Cup put up by Kaiser Wilhelm II in 1905, sailing from Sandy Hook to the Lizard (3,014 miles) in 12 days, 4 hours, 1 minute-a record that still stands for a transatlantic crossing under sail...
...HOOK OR CROOK-R. A. J. Walling-Morrow ($2). Good, conventional English slaughter in Devon, where old tin mines look like the money motive and Bunter's Pond the mortuary. Detective: the gentlemanly Philip Tolefree...
...revue. Bob Henry proves himself a capable young comedian in two laughable acts. Estelle Stahl provides a couple of the better moments, and the Willison-Bates number, "What Noise Annoys an Oyster," is first-rate. With more attention to its own better examples, a generous use of the stage hook on some of its amateurish singing and acting, the Players' Theatre should get many a bleat at Boston before shearing time in the spring...
...Rice and Sherwood Anderson agreed. Together they shaped up an outfit called The Free Company, invited many another literary craftsman to join them in confecting a series of radio dramas designed to sing the various aspects of freedom in the U. S. This week, over a coast-to-coast hook-up (Sunday: 2-2:30 E. S. T.), The Free Company will get going. The Company's initial venture, characteristically entitled The People With Light Coming Out of Them, is some of the patriotic night-thoughts of William Saroyan, who examines the residents of one U. S. city block...