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...bums, priests, con men, whining housewives, burglars, waitresses, children and bewildered ordinary citizens who people Dragnet seem as sorrowfully genuine as old pistols in a hockshop window. By using them to dramatize real cases from the Los Angeles police files-and by viewing them with a compassion totally absent in most fictional tales of private eyes-Webb has been able to utilize many a difficult theme (dope addiction, sex perversion) with scarcely a murmur of protest from his huge public...
...last week Roy Fruehauf was con fident that with Beck's help he had 55% of the 1,459,614 outstanding shares of stock on his side, felt assured of victory at the stockholders' meeting...
...received a copy of a medical questionnaire on hypnosis. Psychiatrist Dallis considered his answers carefully, for hypnosis, long the refuge of quacks and magicians, is once more acknowledged to have some valuable uses in psychiatry. A few weeks later, Cartoonist Dallis had Dr. Rex pitted against an artful con man named Landros, who was practicing hypnotism for his own evil purposes on a wealthy young matron. In the course of snagging the villain and turning him over to the law, Dr. Rex gives his readers a cautionary capsule on the value of hypnosis, and why only qualified physicians should make...
...random digs at classics clubs ("I, connoisseur of good reading, friend of con noisseurs of good reading everywhere"), sloppy diction ("what one weather prophet on the radio calls 'inner mitten' showers"), "personalized" writing ("As for us, we would as lief Simoniz our grandmother as personalize our writing"), usually blend good fun with good sense. Full of engaging tidbits, the "dog's breakfast" does not offer much to chew, but more than enough to tickle the taste buds...
...Word of It. Finally, in 1943 the Securities & Exchange Commission caught up with Moore, had him indicted on 40 counts of fraud. But he slipped away to Canada and continued plying his trade there. This year British Columbia officials informed the SEC that they had found the old (65) con man and were quizzing him about some Canadian stock promotions. Moore startled SEC men by agreeing to return to the U.S. voluntarily to face the old fraud charges...