Word: quiets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...them. For example, when the police commissioner begged Steel to give up his spectacularly successful amateur detective work so that the police would have a chance to catch some crooks themselves ("Heroism at its greatest! To suffer silently without reward"), Stainless reluctantly agreed, rented a room in a quiet boarding house to rest. Not till three weeks later did he realize that his fellow boarders were all crooks, finally went to work and bagged them...
...During the year the British released in the U.S. two superb little farces (Genevieve and High and Dry}, another almost their equal (The Final Test), and a picture about childhood (The Little Kidnappers) that catches the radiance and anguish of life's morning in frames of quiet poetry. At year's end, too, came a somewhat fuddled but heartfelt and intelligent adaptation of Graham Greene's novel The Heart of the Matter...
Three pretty sisters (Doris Day, Dorothy Malone, Elisabeth Fraser) live a quiet, homey, small-town life with their father (Robert Keith) and aunt (Ethel Barrymore). Along comes a handsome, egotistical young composer (Gig Young) who sets everybody aflutter-but it is freckle-faced Doris who flips the most...
...news desk of the Louisville Courier-Journal, Carl Braden, 40, was a quiet, efficient copyreader whose work in the office never gave his employers any cause for complaint. But his work outside the office was another matter. Braden, a veteran newsman and former labor reporter for the Courier-Journal's afternoon sister, the Times, devoted most of his spare time to Communist causes. He gathered signatures for the phony Communist Stockholm "Peace Petition," helped direct strikes for the Red-led Farm Equipment Workers Union, wrote stories that ran in the Communist Daily Worker...
Shock Treatment. The plot began to unfold last spring when Braden bought a ranch-style house in a quiet, all-white suburban section outside Louisville, then transferred title to Andrew Wade, a Negro electrical contractor. In Louisville, where the hard lines of segregation are disappearing slowly, Braden's Communist-style "shock treatment" brought the expected results. First a flaming cross was burned on a lot adjoining Wade's property, then a volley of shots was fired into the house. Finally a bomb exploded...