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Last year the city of Ames had a local campaign of its own, headed by Dr. Harold Gunderson of Iowa State College. Ames sprayed and scrubbed itself into almost utter flylessness. In the stores, the hanging ribbons of flypaper, usually black with entangled prey, remained naked all summer, or were...
From that hardy band, Fred Mulcahy, last year's New England intercollegiate champ, and Oakes Ames have graduated, leaving behind Bill Rickenbacker, Walt Butler, Larry Gray, and Paul Coste. All of these veteran clubbers, with the possible exception of Coste, last year's appointed captain, are definitely looking forward to...
The story is as breathlessly helter-skelter as most Chandler yarns. Unlike most, it strews only a modest number of red herrings and thus makes reasonable sense at the fadeout. Detective Montgomery is hired by a glamorous crime-fiction editor (Audrey Totter) to track down the missing wife of her...
Dunster: le, Murphy; lt, Thornburg; lg, Johnson; c, Ames; rg, Lewis; rt, Coyne; re, McCroskey, Graham; backs, Torrey, Critchlow, Aldrich, Easton, MacDonald.
The Strange Woman (Hunt Stromberg-United Artists), from a drugstore novel by Ben Ames Williams, takes its title and text from Scripture: