Word: crime
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...unclear or inadequate. Once, reading of the death of a general, a survivor of the Crimean War, he demanded a big story and shifted into Brooklynese to tell an editor why. "It ain't duh general, it's duh war," he growled. "Tell 'em what duh Crime...
...Case of the Cautious Coquette, Erie Stanley Gardner's 61st crime novel, is a good example of the stream-of-action technique, the ingenious but credible situations and the direct, undecorated prose that have made him the best-selling author alive. In 25? Pocket Book editions alone, 28 of his books have sold more than 30 million copies in less than nine years. Fourteen Gardner titles have gone over the million mark; The Case of the Lucky Legs alone has hit the incredible figure, for a detective story, of 2,000,000. In all editions, hard and paper cover...
Committee rewording of H442 has changed the crime, the culprit, and the penalties since the public hearings were held on the bill. Under the new wording, "teaching the doctrines of atheistic communism" is the offense for which teachers would receive a fine, a year in jail, and banishment from the profession. This phrase replaces "advocating overthrow of the government by force or violence." Either version, however, could conceivably be applied to large bodies of people who did not hold the same views as the Commissioner of Education or the majority of the legislature...
...quarter of a century after he started serving 99 years for the 1924 thrill-murder of 14-year-old Bobby Franks, Nathan Leopold wanted out of Joliet prison (his partner in crime, Richard Loeb, was killed by a fellow inmate 13 years ago). "When I came here I was 19 . . . a wild, irresponsible kid," he told the Illinois State Parole Board. "I feel that in 25 years I have matured considerably . . . I am not a kid any more." The board reserved decision...
...them, and all the other Her-Ex readers, he plays the latest murders for all they are worth-and more. He dresses up his crime stories with phony montages, demands a new angle for the lead story in each of his seven editions. He has a talent for tagging big crimes with a headline catchphrase; two of his trademarks- on the "Black Dahlia" murder and the "White Flame" murder-were promptly picked up by other papers. But "if you give the readers something sensational on one side of the page," Campbell says, "you ought to give them something solid...