Word: instants
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Breen assaulted his audience with sex, violence, and sounds of foghorns and lapping water. He loaded the script with similes (sample: as difficult as "sandpapering an oyster"). But as the first program began, he stood in a control booth frantically waving at Webb to underplay. The show was an instant success, and for the first time Webb knew the delights of fan mail. Pat Novak ran for 26 stirring weeks. Then Breen simultaneously quarreled with the station management and got a Hollywood offer. He quit. An hour later, Webb quit, loaded his jazz records and clothes into his 1941 Buick...
...making the city one of the nation's most important insurance centers. St. Regis Paper had opened a giant new $18 million plant; General Motors' Electro-Motive Division has nearly completed a $2,500,000 expansion to triple its capacity. General Foods had a new Maxwell House instant-coffee plant; International Harvester, a new $300,000 farm-equipment outlet...
...them. A woman of 70 was swept into the icy River Lutz and rescued from the shore more than two days later. But near by, a peasant, wearily plodding across the fields, saw his house, his wife, his mother and his three children all swept to oblivion in an instant...
...Saturday's big game. The seven linemen-roaring another guttural "Y-A-A-A-A-H-H-R-R-R"*-charged like bulls into a row of freshman defenders, who were specially padded, rather like picadors' horses, to withstand the shock. In the same split-second instant, a long-legged halfback named John Lattner sprang from his crouch, took the deft hand-off of the ball from his quarterback, and cracked through the right side of the line with the power of a runaway steer...
...even greater, since the script grants Holmes few flashes of genius. Often the villains seem to be humoring the poor sleuth, as, when hiding behind a curtain in a singer's dressing room or disguised in a Rasputin beard, Holmes fools neither the lady for Moriarity for an instant...