Word: cops
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hell on Frisco Bay (Jaguar; Warner) The resident devil is Edward G. Robinson, a sort of menace emeritus who is invited by Alan Ladd, a cop he once framed, to retire from the daily grind to a peaceful chair at San Quentin. Eddie replies at some length: "Oh y-a-a-a-a?" Alan lets his right hand do the talking-and for a man who seems to have scarcely enough muscle to move his own face, he packs quite a punch. The effect of it, in fact, is almost enough to make a moviegoer believe that this picture...
...pavement, the clatter of mah-jongg pieces, the wail of radios tuned to Chinese opera, the brays of hawkers and cries of countless babies, all insist on its Chineseness-but the eye is reminded, by the flap of the Union Jack and the crisp gesture of a traffic cop, that here, as nowhere else in Asia, British "law and order" yet prevail...
...showed an early talent for painting and horseplay, but her voice took over, and she landed a regular singing job at CBS when she was 21. One day at her dressmaker's, she met an Irish cop from Staten Island. His name was Robert Vincent Reagan, and he was investigating a threatening letter received by the dressmaker. Reagan and Farrell were married in 1945, settled down in Staten Island, just a ferry ride from Manhattan. Then and there, Eileen Farrell found that she was a homebody with a true devotion to cooking and children (the Reagans have two). Nevertheless...
...nose, a high forehead, thinning brown hair and sandy eyebrows. He was broad and short, and it was noted that his shoes had extra-thick soles. His hands were large and hairless with thick, short fingers. He wore only grey-blue suits. Correspondents took him for a plain-clothes cop on a tour of VIP duty, but they soon learned that this was no ordinary MVD gorilla...
...Berlin, Conn., after he was nagged down by a cop for illegal passing on the right, Motorist William H. Veale commented: "This is embarrassing," produced a card in traffic court identifying himself as secretary of the Connecticut League for Law Enforcement...