Word: 21st
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...21st Precinct (Tues. 9:30 p.m., CBS Radio) makes an effective half-hour of police drama (from Manhattan files), but loses a lot of sting from its resemblance to NBC's Dragnet (from Los Angeles iles). In its favor, the new show has Actors Everett Sloane and Joan Lorring and Director-Writer Stanley (Gangbusters) Niss, an expert at creating minor personalities. 21st Precinct captures the sounds and scenes of everyday police work; the characters are all underplayed, just like Dragnet (which pretty much originated that school of radio acting, and has lately begun underplaying its own underplaying). Unsponsored...
Jacob K. Javits, U.S. Representative from Manhattan's 21st Congressional District LL.D...
...Last Christmas the 21st Infantry Regiment raised $2,347 to provide parties and presents for 996 orphans and 16 families...
Overseas Rampage. Author Gibney reached Japan on his 21st birthday, Sept. 21, 1945. A Navy lieutenant with a command of the Japanese language, he was detailed to the job of interrogating prisoners of war. He remained less than a year before he was discharged, but in March 1949 he was back again as a correspondent for TIME & LIFE. His Five Gentlemen of Japan are real people: Emperor Hirohito; Fumio Shimizu, a wartime vice admiral, now an engineer; Tadao Yamazaki, a Tokyo newspaperman; Hideya Kisei, a steelworker; Sakaji Sanada, a farmer. In Author Gibney's hands, they are far more...
...rate of $3,000,000 a year. Because every cent Lehigh made in 1952; was plowed back into the road, President Major was forced to add to his good-year report some news all too familiar to Lehigh's long-patient shareholders' 1952 is therefore the 21st successive year in which the stockholders have received no return whatever...