Word: crime
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...televised on Saturdays at 2 p.m., reached a maximum audience of only 500,000, and had a production budget of $1,600 per show (about one-fifth the cost of an average three-minute commercial). Worse still, when it began an eight-part dramatization of Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment last fall, it had to compete with the Army-Navy game...
...Already, in Jerusalem, this Jewish tyrant had displayed his bestiality by inflicting the same awful death on eight hundred rebels," says Professor Allegro. "A Qumrân manuscript speaks in shocked tones of the enormity of this crime...
Eustace is an astigmatic groundhog who, having misread his calendar, staggered through the door of the Crime last night a dey ahead of schedule. Hopping to a typewriter, he borrowed a pair of spectacles and began to pound away madly, leaving the following advice for Monday-Wednesday-Friday classgoers...
Dinneen soon turned to crime. The story that made his name broke in 1934 when he and another newsman split a $5,000 reward for helping to solve a murder case for which two men were wrongly jailed. After the two suspects were freed and paid $2,500 each by the state for false imprisonment, one of them met Dinneen on the street. He remarked on the reporter's reward money and asked: "What did it cost you to get it?" "Nothing," said Dinneen. "Why?" The ex-suspect then told how he and his companion had been forced...
...Globe city room. His headquarters are in a dingy private office half a block away from the Globe, where callers who require privacy can get it. But a Dinneen is still a fixture in the Globe city room: his son, Joe Jr., 32, also is a crime specialist. Last week, while his father was back on the Brink's beat, young Dinneen drew the other top current crime assignment, a murder trial in Plymouth. Another son, Robert, 30, is a newsreel cameraman-who covered the same trial for TV. Says Dinneen: "We are keeping it in the family...