Word: spreeing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Yale University junior is under arrest in Aurora, Colo., awaiting possible arraignment on attempted murder charges as a result of a wild shooting spree in front of his father's home Thursday night...
...main movement, the picture has all the drive of a .45 slug, but the comic interludes are mostly misfires. Paulette Goddard is agreeably bummy as an affluent madam, and Porter Hall, as one of the witnesses (an undertaker on a spree), firmly supports many a shaky scene with his main comic device: an almost completely absent chin. Edward G. Robinson is as monotonous and entertaining as ever. An actor who has developed well-nigh infinite modulations of the sneer, Robinson, after 30 years of practice, has at last produced his masterpiece. In Vice Squad, he displays a sneer so spectacular...
...point spree by big George Mikan carried the Minneapolis Lakers over a rough fourth quarter last night to top the New York Knicks, 71 to 69, in the fourth game in their best of seven series. Minneapolis leads three games to one. . . . 60,000 fans gave the Milwaukee Braves a roaring reception as they paraded through their new home for the first time...
...Hitchhiker (The Filmakers; RKO Radio) is a crisp little thriller inspired by the real-life story of Billy Cook, who in 1951 killed six people on a transcontinental murder spree. The picture opens with a couple of Mexico-bound vacationing fishermen (Edmond O'Brien and Frank Lovejoy) picking up a hitchhiker (William Talman), who turns out to be an escaped convict and murderer. It ends with the Mexican police closing in on the killer and his intended victims just in the nick of time...
...Detroit, the Red Wings' Gordie Howe (TIME, March 2) went on a scoring spree (two goals, three assists) against the last-place New York Rangers, to run his season total to 90 points (45 goals, 45 assists) and break his own National Hockey League record of 86 points. This week, with seven games to go, Howe scored another goal, leaving him within shooting distance of the record-50-set by Montreal's Maurice Richard in 1944-45. ¶In Cleveland, Rio Grande's Basketballer Bevo Francis sank 54 points against Wilberforce (final score: 109-55), paced...