Word: stoles
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bridges to Cross (Universal-International), a well-made cops-and-robbers thriller, might have an arresting subtitle: They Stole $2,500,000 and Got Away with It. That is more or less what happened five years ago in Boston when a well-organized band of crooks relieved Brinks, Inc. of its clients' assets. Jerry Florea (Tony Curtis), a born organizer, rises from a Boston gutter to mastermind the multimillion-dollar robbery. Policeman Ed Gallagher (George Nader), Jerry's longtime friendly enemy, cannot break his alibi. Just as Jerry is about to split the take, it turns out that...
...with its own field goals, the Crimson closed the margin to as little as three points with two minutes to play. Hobson's pair of fouls raised the margin to five points, but a basket by Ike Canty again brought it to three points, 78 to 75. The Crimson stole the ball, but missed four straight shots before Yale sank another foul...
...forward Curt Ford stole the puck with the Crimson in the attacking zone and raced down the ice to beat Dick Hubbell at 7:08 of the final period. Cleary raised hopes of a Crimson come-back with a long shot into the upper right corner at 18:40, but the freshmen were too tired to score again...
...used television to introduce to 31 million viewers its newest, and possibly funniest, comedy team: Irene Dunne and Louella Parsons. Actress Dunne and Columnist Parsons were supposed to have only bit parts in the 1½-hour program devoted to nominations for moviedom's treasured Oscars-but they stole the show. Broadcasting from the Cocoanut Grove, Irene Dunne's performance as straight man was one that even Dean Martin could envy. As for Lolly Parsons, at one moment she was tossing off her lines with all the raffish assurance of Tugboat Annie; the next, she was nearly disappearing...
...Winthrop House thieves not only stole a stamp machine, but they also took the table on which the machine had rested...