Word: arresting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Like most of Wyatt's guests, Transvestite Kahler was supplied by the police, who had arrested him as a drunken woman being molested by three men, and did not discover his sex until they got him to the station house. Obligingly, the police let Kahler get into a black sheath cocktail dress for a filmed re-enactment of the sidewalk arrest. Wyatt used the film, along with footage of the begowned Kahler doing a few dance steps. Then for an "insight into this age-old, worldwide psychological problem," the live camera turned to Kahler, seated in a jail uniform...
Died. John McDowell, 55, acid-tongued, flag-waving sometime Republican U.S. Congressman from Pennsylvania (1939-41, 1947-49), among those credited by Whittaker Chambers (in Witness) with hunting down the facts (while a member of the House Un-American Activities Committee) that led to the arrest and conviction of Alger Hiss; by his own hand (gunshot); at his home in Wilkinsburg...
...full-fledged revival session, that drew a crowd of several hundred people into the Square on Saturday afternoon, caused the stoppage of all traffic for nearly a half-hour, and eventually resulted in the arrest of a 40-year-old evangelist, along with 12 of his disicples...
Patrolman Frank Foster, directing traffic at the corner of Boylston and Brattle Sts., four times warned the preacher and his band of followers to "move along"; but they consistently refused to do so. Finally, Foster put Pugh under arrest...
...officer who made the arrest claimed that Thompson knocked down one passerby and broke another's glasses when he grabbed a money basket from Santa Claus, portrayed by another 'Poon candidate, during a Fool's Week stunt on Wednesday...