Word: cops
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Kenneth Eugene Hager, 45, is a big (6 ft. 2 in., 240 Ibs.) cop who knows every lush, pimp and tart on "Sin Corner" in Charleston, W.Va., where he has been running them in for 20 years. Today he is Charleston's Policeman of the Month, but not for making arrests. Ken Hager's proud specialty is saving souls...
...road to hell and that nothing could help me but God. It seemed I couldn't get to him fast enough." He quit drinking, joined a Nazarene church, and began going to work an hour early each morning to study his Bible. But a pious cop is not necessarily a good cop. Police Chief Dallas Bias found the new Hager "ineffectual" because he kept trying to help suspects instead of digging up evidence and hammering out confessions. Transferred to desk duty, Hager still seemed miscast. Chief Bias went to the mayor. "How about setting up a chaplaincy...
...wonderful breakfast. The bread was a delicious grey color"). There was one bloodstained breach in Batista's hospitality. Reporter Neal Wilkinson was sipping coffee across from the presidential palace when police caught up with a group of teen-age rebels who stopped a few feet from Wilkinson. One cop turned on Wilkinson and, disregarding his cries of "Americano," clubbed him about the face and body, pursuing him until he reached the sanctuary of his hotel...
...hairily handsome Johnny Stompanato, 32, a bum-around-Hollywood whose main claim to fame was a record as a pal of six-bit Gangster Mickey Cohen. Johnny and Lana had traveled Europe together, spent two months in Mexico. But upon their return Lana began, as a Beverly Hills cop delicately put it last week, trying to "discourage his attendons." Johnny Stompanato got downright annoyed...
...Cop. The book is valuable not only for what it says about Communism but for what it says about J. Edgar Hoover, who, he points out himself, has been pictured by the Communists and others as running a kind of Gestapo. Few Americans love a cop (unless he is a badlands sheriff), but this book should make clear that the top federal cop is calm, intelligent, sane, and genuinely concerned that the duties of the FBI never be abused...