Word: walker
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...pinned down from 8:30 a.m. to midafternoon, escaped the stream of bullets pumped into the house by a 30-cal. machine gun set up in a general store 200 yards away. Finally, frustrated state police sent an urgent appeal to Governor David Lawrence, who approved use of a Walker bulldog tank manned by National Guardsmen to flush the killer. Rushed in by flatcar, the 25-ton tank lumbered to Chalk Hill, circled the bullet-pocked bungalow as police fired from the cover...
...Devil and Tom Walker,* by John Quidor, shows the same ambivalence, perhaps drawn from the well-pruned splendor of English romantic poetry on the one hand and the wild reality of the American wilderness on the other. An illustrator of genius, Quidor was a friend and admirer of Washington Irving, and his best paintings are based on incidents from Irving's tales. But he found few customers, painted decorative designs on fire engines for a living...
...Washington Irving's tale, Tom Walker, Yankee miser, accidentally kicks up a skull in the woods and is admonished by a guardian devil named Old Scratch. His wife loses body and soul to Old Scratch, but wily Tom sells his soul only, and for hard cash. "Lend the money," the devil suggests, "at 2% a month." "Egad," replies Tom, "I'll charge...
...that the only billing it thought fitting was "The Cathedral of Motion Pictures." As the cathedral's doors opened, 125 special policemen held back the mobs that strained for a look at their flicker favorites. Among the 6,000 first-nighters were New York's Mayor Jimmy Walker, Harold Lloyd, Charlie Chaplin and Gloria Swanson, star of the cathedral's first attraction, The Love of Sunya. As the audience settled back in the plush mohair seats, an actor in a monk's robe appeared on stage, spread his arms and said: "Let there be light." With...
...calves and chickens." says Hulet. "If I know what they're eating, I know where to find 'em." To corner them, Hulet uses half a dozen hounds of his own special mongrel breed: one-quarter pit bull, one-eighth Australian cattle dog, and the remainder Redbone or Walker hound. Explains Hulet: "Thoroughbred hounds don't have the courage that crosses do. The pit bull in 'em makes 'em vicious and tenacious. The cattle dog in 'em gives 'em enough sense to snap and get out of the way. You ought to have spotted...