Word: pursuits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Later, about 50 dignitaries tried to squeeze into the five cars for the ride to the local fairgrounds. Disgusted, Murphy wound up walking all the way to the fairgrounds, slogging to the speakers' stand through thick clouds of desert dust while Mrs. Tucker, in full pursuit, began to remonstrate with him. At length, Hollywood Star Wendell Corey, who had arrived early only to disappear mysteriously, turned up in time to make a half-incoherent speech about "my good friend and that great American, George Muffin!-I mean Murphy...
TOPKAPI. Director Jules Dassin (Rififi) lightens larceny with laughter as Melina Mercouri and Peter Ustinov head a crook's tour of exotic Istanbul in pursuit of four fabulous emeralds...
...serious talk of Black's retiring. He is a wiry little man of boundless energy who plays ferocious tennis almost every day, sometimes four hours at a time. His blue-green eyes sparkle with the light of a mind still aggressive in the pursuit of learning. No other Justice has less formal education; yet none is more widely read than the libertarian Alabamian who deprecates himself as "a rather backward country fellow...
Died. Harpo Marx, 75, wackiest and most wonderful of the four Marx Brothers, a master of madhouse pantomime in battered plug hat and shocking pink wig, whose endless trove of sight gags (a skirt needs straightening? Whee! Cut it off.) and leering, horn-honking, pinching pursuit of squeaking blondes kept a generation of Americans in helpless laughter-and a thousand comedians trying to top him; following heart surgery; in Hollywood. Behind the idiot grin, Harpo (real name: Adolph) was a witty, gentle soul, married to one woman for life, and the doting father of four adopted children; he was also...
...theft took place on the corner of Garden and Shephard streets at about 9:50 p.m. Miss Moore passed the three youths, who said. "Hi," and then grabbed her purse from behind. A hot pursuit was to no avail. Several other girls reported passing the same boys at the same spot earlier in the evening...