Word: crime
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...arrived in Morocco a month and a half ago with the ardent desire to restore order and peace by friendship has a broken heart," said Grandval. "There is no motive that can excuse such a crime...
...public view. The key to comprehension, if comprehension is possible, lies perhaps in one of the rare remarks that Baritone Sinatra has made about himself. "If it hadn't been for my interest in music," he once wrote, "I'd probably have ended in a life of crime...
...Crime stories began to make even the most crime-hungry U.S. daily look sober by comparison. Recently, when a British sergeant was convicted of murdering another soldier with the help of his halfbrother, two British weeklies got articles from 1) the murderer (I THOUGHT I HAD GOT AWAY WITH IT), 2) the half-brother (WHY I GAVE MY BROTHER'S MURDER SECRET AWAY), 3) the murdered man's sister (WHY I KNEW MY BROTHER DID NOT KILL HIMSELF), and 4) the soldier's wife (I AM TO BLAME...
...flamboyant journalism became sensational not only about sex ("LAW CAN'T TOUCH ME"-BABY'S FATHER) and crime (MOTHER SLAYS BABE IN WOODS TO MAKE WAY FOR LOVER), but about the most important national and international news as well. For example, more in the interest of slam-bang headlines than from political conviction, Britain's popular dailies outdid each other the minute the U.S. made the announcement in March 1954 of the destructive powers of the hydrogen bomb. HELL BOMB, HORROR BOMB, and other black-scare headlines filled every Page One, along with such articles...
Many a mug on the edge of the big time thinks there is a formula for dealing with newsmen: intimidate or bribe. In Galveston, Texas, where vice and crime abound, Gambling Boss Anthony Fertitta tried that formula in an effort to prevent LIFE from getting pictures of his illegal operations. It did not work...