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...film's plot centers on the efforts of editor Jim Austin (John Forsythe) to clean-up his mythical home town of Kennington. Austin stumbles onto the workings of an interstate gambling syndicate almost accidentally and is drawn into a web of fear and violence as he uncovers details of its operations. Excellent directive touches, like the sudden shift from the scream of a dying man to a blaring horn at the Country Club dance, symbolize Austin's transition from naive upper-middler to a hunted animal. And as his investigation gets nearer the truth, Captive City illustrates just how police...

Author: By William Burden, | Title: The Captive City | 4/7/1952 | See Source »

Eight Boston night spots closed shop last week--until they mended their ways--as a result of a city clean-up campaign but so far only one dive of interest to students. The College Inn, has suffered under the new edicts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: City Puts Pinch On 8 Night Spots | 1/7/1952 | See Source »

...five hundred criminals were rounded up in a nation-wide drive on narcotics peddlers; battered reputations came flying periodically out of the doors of various government agencies, swathed in mink coats and attitudes of aggrieved righteousness; President Truman and the Republicans fought to see who could be most for clean-up in government during the election year, the former having an advantage because he was in a position to do something...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Happy New Year | 1/7/1952 | See Source »

Cambridge police last night towed away two out-of-state College students' cars to launch a new "clean-up" campaign on streets in the Harvard Square area. The cars, which were illegally parked on the sidewalk near the intersection of Mount Auburn and Boylston Streets, can be reclaimed anytime at the Ellery Garage at 418 Broadway, Cambridge...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Police Tow Away 2 Cars In Anti-Parking Crusade | 10/25/1951 | See Source »

Several out-of-state M.I.T. students also found yesterday morning that their cars had been removed by police overnight. Police Lieutenant Lark Cunningham said last night that some patrolmen had found old parking tags torn up in the street, which prompted the "clean-up" campaign. Policemen in a squad car in the Harvard Square district also reportedly told one student last night that they "were going to tow away several automobiles...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Police Tow Away 2 Cars In Anti-Parking Crusade | 10/25/1951 | See Source »

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