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...orders from Novac, Gog and Magog prowl soundlessly about on their rubber tank treads indifferently slaughtering scientists, until at last they are caught in the act of messing up the safety controls in an atomic pile. They are then deactivated with a flamethrower wielded by a daring young security agent (Richard Egan) in defense of a beautiful female scientist (Constance Dowling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Monsters | 7/19/1954 | See Source »

...Vegas, the plush Sands Hotel is installing a TV detective system to watch over the gaming tables, seek out cheating customers or croupiers (Harolds Club, Reno's massive gambling palace, tried TV for a while, but dropped it in favor of its time-tested system of watchmen who prowl catwalks behind the murals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Kid Brother | 5/24/1954 | See Source »

When to Duck. Radio Actor Donn Reed, who originated the show, spends his nights riding a Culver City, Calif, prowl car to make on-the-spot recordings of police investigations, arrests and interrogations. The voices used are those of the people actually involved. In getting his material, Reed has been slugged, beaten with handcuffs, shot at. Says he: "It's important to know just when to duck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: How Real Can It Get? | 4/26/1954 | See Source »

...match. Vaudevillians could always count on the foibles of the Watch and Ward Society for a few derisive laughs, and Boston prudery was as much a part of folklore as Western rawness and Southern comforts. Times, whether for good or ill, have changed; a visitor to the city can prowl most of Boston before he runs across much restriction or even restraint. But though the nineteenth-century veneer of its citizenry is no more, the Commonwealth clings to laws of Victorian vintage...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Out of the Blue | 3/8/1954 | See Source »

...that hung from the middle of the roof with the same text on each of its four sides ("Jesus said: I am the Way, the Truth and the Life"), Evangelist Graham slowed down his usual machine-gun delivery for the benefit of British ears and moderated his usual platform prowl in deference to British dignity. But the message was the one he delivered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Crusade for Britain | 3/8/1954 | See Source »

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