Word: quentin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that wasn't fit for man, beast or cross-country racers. The temperature was 27°, and slushy snow covered the Michigan State course. Squishing in sodden shoes, 154 athletes last week slogged after the National Collegiate cross-country crown. After 3¾ miles, Defending Champ Quentin Brelsford of Ohio Wesleyan was 20 yards in front...
...Quentin Styles will be plunking from one of the guard slots with his distinctive fast, low, long shot. His fast, deceptive passing should prove invaluable in breaking the opponent's defense. Tricky Fred Wegner from Southbend, Indiana, will fill the other guard position. Except for Pankey he is the fastest and most ubiquitous man on the team...
Assignment: Tel-Aviv (Paul Falkenberg; United Palestine Appeal) is the clearest effort among the four to appeal to non-Jews. It is also the least effective. It is no more than a slightly humanized travelogue, in uneven color, narrated by the glossily chummy voice of Quentin (London Can Take It) Reynolds...
...content with a disconnected cluster of acts, Mr. Daves has hamstrung his movie by injecting a series of truly fascinating coincidences into the plot. Lauren Bacall just happens to be near San Quentin when Bogy escapes, a blackmailer just happens to pick him up in a car, thereby wasting thirty minutes of story time, and the killer just happens to cheat justice by carelessly stumbling out a twenty-five story window...
...paratrooper's boots. It is held together by an elusive, improbable and unresolved love story involving a pink-haired British girl named Elaine (he called her Pinky) and interspersed with morning-after recollections of nights before spent with more-or-less real people with names like Ernie Pyle, Quentin Reynolds and Ernest. Hemingway. At worst, the text can hardly spoil the pictures-or spoil the illusion that all photographers are exasperating but fascinating eccentrics who drink, love and live intensely...