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...Yale, sagely advising them on matters of College administration. He warned President Thomas Clap of Yale against putting gutters on his buildings because the students would undoubtedly clog them up with refuse. He also advised against lining Yale's windows with lead, writing Clap that the students would probably steal the lead and sell...
Richard was too young to be arrested, even as a juvenile delinquent. He helped steal because his two companions gave him candy and let him go to the movies with them as a reward. (The two movie-going pals, when caught, blamed their law-breaking on "the spirit of the West...
...Steal. The Giants struck hard in the first inning. With two Giants out, Yankee Pitcher Allie Reynolds carelessly walked the next batter. Up stepped 30-year-old Monte Irvin, a lanky Negro with the easy, relaxed grace of a dancer. He bounced on his feet, then hit sharply into right field. The Giants' First Baseman Whitey Lockman doubled. A run scored and Irvin was on third...
...pivotal role, Actor Clift's sensitive, natural performance gives the film a solid core of conviction. Actress Taylor plays with a tenderness and intensity that may surprise even her warmest fans. In a film of less uniform excellence, Shelley Winters' mousy factory girl would completely steal the show. Shy, petulant, or shrilly nagging by turns, she makes the most of her unconventional role and of the movie's boldest scene, when she gropes, on a choked-up brink of tears, for a tactful way to ask a doctor for an abortion...
...steal the show-from Producer-Director Stevens, whose firm grip is on every foot of A Place in the Sun. Stevens' unerring timing, and his skill at filling any situation with the last shade of emotion and meaning, enable him to direct the picture at a deliberately slow pace that still weaves a spell without dragging for a moment...