Word: pursuers
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...year-old Cornelius Vanderbilt ("Sonny") Whitney, inheritor of $20 million, avid pursuer of the outdoor life (horses, deep-sea fishing, hunting, aviation). An instructor pilot in World War I, Whitney entered World War II as a major, served ably in Africa, the Pacific and Washington, came out a colonel with the Distinguished Service Medal...
Charles Coburn, who plays the lead, is no newcomer to the Shakespearian field. Twenty years ago he was treading the boards in the quadrangle behind Sever when his own company gave summer performances around new England. Age and portliness have only enhanced his charms as Falstaff, that wistful pursuer of other men's wives. His supporting cast does credit to the Theater Guild's reputation for fostering real talent. A special word of commendation belongs to Judson Rees, the seven year old trouper who portrays Falstaff's petite page...
Costa Rica's President Teodoro Picado sent a party of soldiers and police in pursuit, in a beach wagon. Shortly after midnight they were stopped beyond the village of Naranjo by a road block. They got out and reconnoitered. The revolutionists opened fire. Score: one pursuer killed, three wounded...
...Germans were learning, as their fellow sufferers had learned on the Eastern Front, that retreat for an army without air cover is an inferno, that no devils in hell could be worse than the pursuer's ground-hugging planes, stabbing and jabbing with cannon, rockets, frag mentation bombs and machine guns...
Defeat was a gangrenous infection which grew and spread, and with each hour became more dangerous. Not even Manstein, with all his genius for war, knew how to end the infection. All he could do now was to retreat with all speed, and hope that the pursuer would wear himself out in the steadily widening belt of devastated land...