Word: copping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...group includes a physical scientist and a physiologist who are university department heads; a 32-year-old aeronautical engineer who is coordinator of research in a $10,000,000 laboratory; also jazz-band players, ghost writers, radio announcers, a fox farmer, a rare-stamp dealer, a cop. Half of Terman's boys entered professions, with the law leading. They have written dozens of books, hundreds of short stories, poems, articles. They have taken out more than 80 patents...
...GOOSE IS COOKED-Emmett Hogarth-Simon & Schuster ($2). Extravaganza in an electrical engineer's laboratory: the first corpse is only charred around the wrists; the second "looks like Al Jolson singing 'Mammy.' " The solution is by Marty Cohen, a law-school cop who knows no watts but is a hard, bright New Yorker going places...
...with their records up to date. There was Dr. Paul Josef Goebbels, whom his fellow Rhinelanders call "Jupkin" (insignificant little Joe), and who is so non-Aryan-looking that a policeman once tried to stop him from entering a Nazi rally. "Better not go in there, buddy," said the cop. "They're all anti-Semites." There was the only normal Nazi, Rudolf Hess, called "Fraulein" because he is hysterical Hitler's nursemaid and governess. There was the ex-wine salesman, Joachim von Ribbentrop, who used to be much in demand for amateur theatricals in the homes of rich...
Also working on the problem is the social welfare bureau of the Patrolmen's Benevolent Association, run by a policeman, Psychologist William McDonald. Most cops kill themselves, says the bureau, because of: 1) debts and duns; 2) drinking; 3) domestic difficulties; 4) harsh discipline; 5) a handy revolver. By calling off loan sharks, and talking over family troubles "cop to cop," the bureau claims to have saved many a blue-uniformed life...
...From a nearby table came a sibilant whisper: "The speaker." To police his police, Commissioner Valentine has a special "shoo-fly" (confidential) squad. Since he went into office in September 1934 he has dismissed some 300 men, officially rebuked 3,000, fined 8,000. Most suicides, think the cops, are crushed between the Commissioner's sea-green honesty and granite discipline and the temptations that beset a Manhattan cop: the numbers games, horse betting, floating crap games, houses of prostitution, which all press money on the police for protection...