Word: craig
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Maine Newshen May Craig noted that the President had referred in a recent speech to the "Korean war." Asked May: "Is that a manner of speaking or do you differ from Mr. Truman, who always called it a police action?" Said Ike: It could be his upbringing, but when you see American soldiers, called out under a draft, suffering casualties in the numbers they have been suffering, it must be called a war as far as he is concerned...
...first big hit was in George Kelly's Craig's Wife. She had fought against taking the part of the frigid, too-neat Harriet Craig, because "I thought it would hurt me as a comedienne." It may have hurt her: six pictures later, she all but missed getting the rich, sharp-tongued comedy part of Sylvia Fowler in Clare Boothe's The Women. Director George Cukor doubted that Ros was comedienne enough for the role. She met the challenge with her usual determination by acting one scene from the script in six different comedy ways. Cukor gave...
...minded yokel for his countrymen." But other papers, like the Los Angeles Times, thought Ike's firmness was just what was needed. Said the Times: At the conference he "invited the inference that policy in this Administration is not evoked by the questions of Washington correspondents." Newshen May Craig of the Portland Press-Herald and other Maine papers, who prefers to operate at a press conference like a prosecuting attorney, was disappointed. "He gave us his little lecture," said she, "then he dismissed...
...want me, well, come and get me," growled Craig. Bentley, though already under arrest, shouted to his pal: "Let him have it, Chris!" Chris Craig emptied his Colt automatic, and one of its .45-cal. slugs killed Police Constable Sidney Miles. The cops, prohibited by English law from carrying firearms, had to rush a man to the nearest station house to sign an emergency application and get a pistol. When it arrived, Detective-Constable Fairfax opened fire. Craig, unhit but scared, jumped 25 feet to the ground and was captured...
Partner in Crime. Under the law, Derek Bentley, as a partner in a crime which culminated in murder, was as guilty as the one who pulled the trigger. Thus instructed by the trial judge, a jury in Old Bailey found both Craig and Bentley guilty of murder. Craig was only sentenced to jail, because he was under 18. But for Derek Bentley, a hapless lad of 19 who has been described as "three-quarter-witted," Lord Chief Justice Goddard grimly donned the black cap to pronounce the death sentence. Since the jury had recommended mercy, many Britons expected Britain...