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Next morning, in a slatch in the storm, surf watchers on the tip of Cape Cod saw the Portland, among the snarled and yelping seas, just off the treacherous Peaked Hill Bar. The storm closed in, and the day wore on. That night, the sea suddenly belched forth a dreadful spew of trunks, mattresses, chairs, stateroom doors and barrels on the sands near Race Point. The bodies came more slowly, rolling inertly in the surf. Explained a coast watcher: "The bodies do not float as woodwork does, but the tide and waves push and roll them along the bottom until...
...thundered six preludes and fugues of Bach-a heavy dose even for the hardiest. But before his program was over, small groups had tiptoed up to the chancel to watch his hands fly over the four manuals (keyboards), and his patent-leather pumps dance over the pedals. Said one watcher: "The guy should have been a ballet dancer...
Working on the theory that "it takes a snoop to catch a jiggle," SEC has 1,100 employees watching all market operations, keeping a constant check on the ticker tape, looking for any unusual buying or selling. (In Manhattan, SEC's tape watcher is an old pool operator of the '20s who knows all the tricks.) If SEC smells something suspicious, it questions the traders, the officials of the company and, if need be, follows up with subpoenas and injunctions. Stock Exchange members, who once bitterly hated the reforming SEC, have learned to live with...
...levres, and "Cutex" (a trade name) for any nail polish-vernis a angles. In the sports arena, their menfolk scream: L'arbitre est un robber! A prizefight announcer cries: Le champion a knockoute son adversaire. And French Canadians of both sexes grin as they say II faut se watcher...
...story, like the movie as a whole, is a nice blend of journalistic hardheadedness and softheartedness. Peering through windows, late on a summer night, the camera finds a room in which a girl is being murdered. There is the killer, but the watcher knows neither his identity nor his motive. The body is found and the news buzzes through to Homicide. During the balance of the show, the audience follows a veteran detective (Barry Fitzgerald), his young helper (Don Taylor) and a swarm of assistants, from laboratory experts to pavement pounders, at the long hard job of smelling out suspects...