Word: blackmailed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Confusion is the keynote of a plot that includes larceny, blackmail, multiple murder, and the whodunit show's inevitable quota of hardboiled--romance. Director Eduard Dmytryk has handled this turbulent story, with its emphasis on strangulation, cudgeling and other more ingenious forms of violence, with good taste extraordinary for Hollywood...
PARTY LINE-Louise Baker-Whittlesey House ($2.50). Nostalgic glimpses of Mayfield, Calif, a generation ago show how Blossom Tramlin, the town menace, becomes the town heroine; how Miss Elmira stops a run on the bank by general blackmail. Soap opera sentiment and humor...
Adultery? Blackmail? Clinically, such inseminations have been notably successful. Johns Hopkins' Dr. Alan Guttmacher has reported success in no less than 20 out of 36 attempts. But the problem of possible charges of adultery against the mother, illegitimacy against the child, blackmail by donors of semen remains unsolved. For their own as well as their patients' protection, U.S. doctors usually seek refuge in a rigmarole of anonymity and secrecy...
...murder as by Guilford's and Liggett's, still officially listed as unsolved. Minneapolis' legitimate newspapers cluck-clucked properly over Kasherman's death, hoped that the latest killing would do what police and city officials had failed to do: put a stop to blackmail parading as journalism...
...Moscow-manufactured Polish Committee as the Provisional Government of Poland is a challenge flung not so much at the London Poles as in the teeth of Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill. It is the latest move in what is coming to look like a genial form of Soviet blackmail of its western allies...