Word: thrillers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week later the Freshmen outplayed the undefeated Crimson jayvees while losing a thriller, 14 to 8, and then cut loose with three final victories. Dartmouth and Brown succumbed by respective scores of 20 to 0 and 28 to 7, and the Yardlings concluded their season with a spectacular 12 to 6 upset of unbeaten Yale...
...tennis season was at its peak, and there was plenty of work for the champ to do. There was also some relaxing to do, and Big Jake finally found time to read the last pages of a thriller-diller western called Magic of a Killer's Name. Dexer the Cowboy and his sawed-off sidekick. Long Tom, were blowing some varmints to kingdom come...
...mystery fans will remember Helen Maclnnes as an author who put feminine curves on international espionage. In Above Suspicion and Assignment in Brittany, she created a creepy, spy-laden atmosphere where even secret agents feared to tread. In her latest novel, Friends and Lovers, she has abandoned the thriller for a ladies' magazine romance. Chief attraction: a headstrong Scottish lassie with her heart in the Highlands. She burns the torch for a callow young Oxonian, but its glow is no more than a soulless fluorescence, shedding little light, no heat...
...Woman on the Beach. Joan Bennett and Robert Ryan in Jean Renoir's sullen thriller (TIME, June...
There are a few surprising failures in a movie so generally well made. Sample: the sergeant and a suspect, hiding out from the law in an all-night movie house talk so loudly that they destroy the suspense. But most of Crossfire is a first-rate thriller, notably well written (by John Paxton) and directed (by Edward Dmytryk). Its chief weakness concerns its main theme...