Word: pursuer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...studies his form; after a stiff workout, he again goes to the mirror to see if his face reflects strain. He studies the opposition almost as closely. After a trial heat, when he knows he has to race the same runners again, Whitfield will turn to his closest pursuer and shake him by the hand. Whitfield admits: "I congratulate him, surely, but I study his face. How tired does he look? How much strength is there in his grip? That way I know what I've got to have to beat him the next time...
...Naked Spur (MGM) is a bang-bang-up western and the shootingest Hollywood horse opera in months. It begins with a cagey killer (Robert Ryan) and his flinty pursuer (James Stewart) who is out to collect the $5,000 reward. An old prospector (Millard Mitchell) and a cashiered Union Army officer (Ralph Meeker) have cut themselves in on the reward money as Stewart's partners. Since this is a big Technicolor western, there is also a girl along for the ride, played by Janet Leigh in a becoming boyish blonde hairdo. By the fadeout, the bad man, the prospector...
Hogan, always a fast finisher, was in his favorite role as a pursuer. Boros teed off first for the final round, played with a cool nonchalance that amazed the gallery. Chomping blades of grass, swigging Cokes, making shots with a cigarette dangling from his lips, the former Connecticut amateur constantly extricated himself from trouble. Gasped one sweating spectator: "He looks cooler than the gallery...
...magic, unsinkable jacket. Satan at last came to collect, of course, suffused with devilish glee. Duvallon slipped his wife's wedding ring on his own finger for protection, jumped on his horse and galloped off to Rome. The Pope prescribed three Masses to foil Duvallon's pursuer-one in St. Peter's, one in Notre Dame, and one in Bessans' village church. With Satan hot on his heels, Duvallon hastened from Rome to Paris and home again, won the race handily and lived happily ever after. A second version goes back only to the 18th Century...
After reaching the ledge, approximately 30 feet above ground, they found that the cat had run out of reach. It rounded the corner-and several seconds later poked its head around to see if its pursuer wore still there...