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...guilt over any of his crimes, the capture meant simply the end of a lovely afternoon. For the villagers whose homes lie within escaping distance of Broadmoor Institution, it meant something else. Next morning the strangled body of a little girl, six years old, was found in a thicket along Straffen's route from Crowthorne to Arborfield...
Written by Radio Scripter Cy (My Friend Irma) Howard, That's My Boy reaches its comedy high in the opening slapstick sequences between Mayehoff and Lewis, then runs steadily downhill through a thicket of Freudian ABCs and the labored plot complications that lead to Jerry's coming through in the big game...
Harry Camberly's best friend could not have awakened from his afternoon snooze at a more awkward moment. A scant 20 feet from his screening bamboo thicket, on a deserted white strand of Riviera beach, lay Harry's blonde wife Eve and a sinewy French mechanic, making love. Harry's friend squeezed his eyes shut, but his mind ticked on furiously. "How could Eve prostrate herself in that atrocious way! What lunatic filth presumed in that man's upstart mind to lay a finger on her!" Suddenly, he "felt like murder." Harry's friend might...
...likely to become a nuisance as the English sparrow did and will not compete too much with native birds, they will be liberated in the most suitable places. If, ten years hence, a startled Arizona hunter flushes a 30-lb., long-necked bustard out of a cactus thicket, he will have Dr. Bump to thank...
...Paso, read two chapters of his never-completed autobiography and listened to such Thoreau-like observations as "Property is a handicap to man." After Ben died in 1936. at 79, Dobie started back-trailing on his life in an effort to flush the truth out of the thicket of legend which had grown up around his name. The result is a briery, humor-speckled portrait of a roughhewn U.S. eccentric who lived only for the kill...