Word: prowls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cinemactor Marlon Brando, who used to prowl around Hollywood in a T shirt and sneakers, was assuming a strangely respectable air. Two months ago, in France, he announced that he was "officially engaged" to Josane Mariani-Berenger, 19, stepdaughter of a French fisherman. Many Brando fans prophesied that their erratic hero was having one of his passing romances. But last week the young actor, to all appearances a resolutely changed man, returned from France on the liner United States. Asked by waiting newsmen about his intentions, he snapped: "It is not a publicity stunt, and I do intend to marry...
...prowl as guest conductor, youthful old (79) Maestro Pierre ("Papa") Monteaux, onetime of the San Francisco Symphony (TIME, April 21, 1952), drew rave notices and the season's biggest crowd at a Chicago summer concert. "Beethoven had real prospects as a composer," said he afterwards in his dressing room. "If he had lived longer, he might have fulfilled his promise...
Outside the Chicago Maternity Center, in the sweltering slums just south of the Loop, sidewalk vendors hawk their wares: secondhand suits, used razor blades, bottles of Dr. Pryor's Jinx Removing Bath Crystals. After dark, dope pushers, prostitutes and gangs of toughs prowl the soiled asphalt. Yet, unlike cops and truant officers, center staffers are seldom molested in the neighborhood. Even the hoods greet them on their rounds...
...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...
...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...