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...squalid realism. The script gives the hoodlum some depth as well as menace; he is stupid, confused, worried sick, and for all his bitterness and bullying, wants eagerly to be liked. The acting is first-rate, not only by Garfield, but by Shelley Winters, deglamorized as the simple, forlorn pickup whose home he invades, by Wallace Ford as her father, grimly swallowing his self-respect, and Selena Royle as the distraught mother...
Judging by their few past performances in international competition, the Russian entry seemed sure to provide some enlivening touches to the games. When a pickup U.S. team defeated the Russians in the world weight-lifting championships in 1946, the outraged Russians promptly devised a new scoring system to prove they had actually won. When they triumphantly departed for Moscow, they were carrying a duplicate trophy they had had created for the occasion. Last summer they threatened to withdraw from the European track & field championships over a contested decision in the relay race. And in last winter's tour...
...thing we knew 30 years ago. The aircraft will need cable with weight on it, and the message center will need a couple of fish poles [used to hold messages aloft so liaison planes can snap them up in flight]. By God, I haven't seen a message pickup since I've been here...
Without Prejudice. In Auburn, Calif., Robert Brumfield Jr., after robbing some of his fellow inmates in the Placer County jail, took the sheriff's overcoat and .38-cal. pistol, got into the deputy sheriff's pickup truck and drove away...
...leave the building, there was no waiting car. His pilot, Lieut. Colonel Anthony Story, asked a civilian behind the wheel of a battered jeep: Would he give General MacArthur a ride? Said the driver, glumly: "Well, if it's an order ..." Finally, the colonel flagged a CAA pickup truck; MacArthur and the pilot bumped...