Word: yarns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Equipped only with a fuzzy wire photo of the escaped prisoner, Reporter Buchanan could not be sure that the man he listened to until 1:30 in the morning was Austin Frank Young. But he looked the part-bruised, scratched and haggard. And he had a hair-raising yarn to spill. Scribbling furiously, Buchanan took it all down, airmailed home the fugitive's own account of his escape, which was promptly copyrighted by the Herald and splashed all over Page One. It made vivid reading: the ordeal ("I didn't know which was worse, the horrible crawl across...
North by Northwest. A wild, completely entertaining Hitchcock yarn in which enemy spies have the gall to think they can rub out Gary Grant...
North by Northwest. A wild, completely entertaining Hitchcock yarn, in which enemy spies have the gall to think they can rub out Gary Grant. With Eva Marie Saint...
...pampered. According to Hollywood folklore, Jack Benny once used a quick series of five plugs which furnished the home of a writer who was about to get married. But a writer often has to exercise all his creative talents to ease in a plug. Working on a racing yarn, one writer yearned to plug a well-known drug product. Solution: he named a race horse Anahist...
Holbrook adequately portrays the paradoxical and inverted morality that makes Huck conscience-striken over his assistance to a runaway; but he unfortunately omits the central yarn, which provides humor and reveals a distinctive Twain touch...