Word: crime
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Under some circumstances, such as the collapse of civil government by reason of war, e.g., South Korea in 1950, the nation in which the crime is committed can hardly exercise effective jurisdiction even if it has the apparent right. And how, if not by the U.S. military, can an armed forces civilian dependent or employee be tried for a crime committed at some such remote outpost as Thule in Greenland, where the Danish government holds title but has none of the local machinery for exercising judicial control...
...intruder in their Oyster Bay home. Four days later, she told her story once more, to a grand jury. After listening to her testimony and the evidence of 30 others for 9½ hours, the grand jury ended its investigation. "We found," said Foreman Louis R. Blaich, "that no crime had been committed in the Woodward case...
Wells, George Bernard Shaw, Winston Churchill. Oldtimers bitterly blamed the shrinkage of the Kemsley empire on uninspired management and unbudging conservatism both in politics and news treatment (Kemsley demands "clean crime, not sordid crime"). Newsmen especially resented how Kemsley shut down the Sunday Chronicle without an advance word to his staff. One reporter was phoning in a football story when the operator cut him off in the middle: "Sorry, sir, the paper has been discontinued." Left March. The staunch Tory politics of the Kemsley Glasgow papers will veer left of center under New Owner King, who considers himself an independent...
INSPECTOR MAIGRET AND THE DEAD GIRL, by Georges Simenon (192 pp.; Crime Club; $2.75). The battered body of a young virgin, dressed in a cheap, rented evening gown, is found on a dark Paris street. That is all the inspector knows when he begins to collect the clues to an obscure, unhappy life. Until the last few wildly improbable pages it is medium-good Simenon, as fascinating as a real-life case because of painstaking police detail...
...CRIME FOR Two, edited by Frances and Richard Lockridge (256 pp.; Lippincott; $3), is a collection of short stories by members of the Mystery Writers of America. All the yarns have previously appeared; most of them are worth reprinting. The volume contains some expert craftsmanship by such pros as Q. Patrick, Michael Gilbert, Ellery Queen, Brett Halliday and Margery Allingham...