Word: sleuth
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Sleuth, Friday and Saturday...
...Sleuth. I hated the play, but Olivier and Caine are supposed to be great. A tricky idea, made more so here since movies are so tricky...
Divorced. Aristotle ("Telly") Savalas, 51, mean-looking, smooth-skulled film actor (Birdman of Alcatraz, The Dirty Dozen) and television star (Kojak, the Polish sleuth), and Marilynn Savalas, 34; after 13 years of marriage, two daughters; in Santa Monica, Calif...
...assigning and culling of the photographs for each issue of TIME-a task that sometimes requires the clairvoyance of a fortune-teller and the shrewdness of a sleuth- is carried out by ten picture researchers under the direction of Picture Editor John Durniak and Assistant Picture Editor Michele Stephenson. In the course of an average week, between 10,000 and 15,000 separate pictures, most of them tiny prints on contact sheets, will be inspected by the staff before a selection of the best of them are blown up to 8-in. by 10-in. size; from that group...
...moves to reform the market system and protect investors. Instead of wasting resources trying to track down small-time securities sharpies, he has concentrated on nailing the big operators, and he has shown a knack for it that would be worthy of the fictional Inspector Maigret, another unprepossessing sleuth. He was active in or headed the SEC investigations that led to charges being filed against such celebrated operators as Lowell Birrell, Eddie Gilbert. Louis Wolfson, Robert Vesco and Bernard Cornfeld.*When tremendous pressure was brought on the SEC to allow Cornfeld to sell mutual funds in the U.S., Pollack said...