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...world searching for it, is fairy tale material. The realism lies in Hammett's dialogue, his insistence upon accurate details. Hammett's detectives were never brilliant thinkers; Sam Spade is a tough monkey with a head as soft as the next guy's when it meets a flying blackjack or a loaded whiskey. Hammett's policemen aren't nice fellows; there is little romance in their jobs and they often become upset. Sometimes they even slug law-abiding citizens...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Maltese Falcon | 1/23/1957 | See Source »

Lethal Bite. Hummel's victim was Jim Hudson, 49, a bullnecked, 200-lb. Negro who had lived by violence and could only die by it. In 1932 Hudson began serving a life sentence for the holdup-murder of a White Cloud, Mich, country storekeeper. In 1936, with a blackjack made of blue denim wrapped around small stones, he attacked five guards at the Southern Michigan State Prison at Jackson. A year later he jumped three more officers in the Jackson yard. Suffering from syphilis, for which he adamantly refused treatment, he once infected a Jackson guard with the disease...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PRISONS: Iron Bars a Cage | 12/10/1956 | See Source »

Agent Provocateur. In Crescent Beach, S.C., after three vacationers called police to report a bee swarm blocking the way into their house, Police Chief Howard Bailey replied: "I can't beat a bee with a blackjack, I can't shoot them and I can't arrest them. Tell you what. If you'll get 'em drunk, I'll come down and see what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jul. 23, 1956 | 7/23/1956 | See Source »

...hall while Ted Heath's 18-piece British orchestra valiantly played America (also the tune of God Save the Queen) as order was restored. In jail the five men were joined by a sixth, found in a parked car outside the hall guarding two rifles, a blackjack and brass knuckles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE SOUTH: Unscheduled Appearance | 4/23/1956 | See Source »

Combined Operations. In Phoenix, Ariz., after he held up the House of Jazz and stuffed $270 in his pocket, John Tillman was slugged with a blackjack by Owner John Giardina, cracked with a baseball bat by Waitress Phyllis Dixon, smacked with a steel chair by another waitress, punched in the jaw by Giardina's brother, bashed on the head with a beer bottle wielded by a patron, arrested when another customer called the cops...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Feb. 13, 1956 | 2/13/1956 | See Source »

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