Word: rayed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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None of the witnesses, said he, could have taken a picture. They had been gone over by the jail's $7,000 "inspectoscope," and with its X-ray beam it would have either detected the hidden camera or, at least, fogged its film. (City Room gossip was that Photographer Joe Migon had sneaked a tiny camera in his shoe past the machine.) Fordney charged that the man had been painted in the chair and pointed out "discrepancies" between the actual execution and the picture. Where there had been a dark electrode on Morelli's right leg, the heavily...
...same time, the skeet club team, composed of Dave Browne, Ed Eyre, Ray Suttle, Mike Safe, and Howard Reed, lost to West Point, 470 to 447 (out of 500). Babson Institute was third with 405 in the match, which was held at the Dedham Country and Polo Club...
...Leonard C. Gordon '51 of Mansfield, Ohic, and Lowell House; John B. Jones, Jr. '50 of Radnor, Pennsylvania, and Winthrop House; Ray W. Karras '51 of Santa Monica, California, and Winthrop House; and Charles H. F. Meade '51 of Crozet, Virginia, and Dunster House...
Director Nicholas (Knock on Any Door) Ray has succeeded in breathing some new life into his hackneyed plot. An escaped lifer (Farley Granger) and his girl (Cathy O'Donnell) hopelessly try to filter through a police dragnet. As their flight zigzags through central Texas, they get their first good view of the world and their first happiness in it. Only rarely, e.g., in a morning shot of Cathy purring glamorously in bed, do they act in tried and untrue Hollywood style. As usual in a cross-country chase, the movie spots its young folks in a grubby motel...
...Granger's cut of a bank robbery and budget their ill-gotten hoard as if they had slaved for it. Working on the notion that bank robbers are a likable lot among themselves and get the same pleasure out of their work as any other skilled craftsmen, Director Ray and Scriptwriter Charles Schnee have served up some fine, entertaining scenes. Their best characters: Howard Da Silva as a one-eyed lush who is outraged over the skimpy newspaper coverage of his bank robberies, and Jay C. Flippen as a hardened robber who has to work overtime to support...