Word: crime
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...campaign of harassment against the Catholic Church. Said the 4,000-word message, signed by 23 of Argentina's Catholic prelates: "To those who have lost their tenure, their positions, their reputations or their resources, and to those who endured imprisonment without being convicted of any crime, goes our voice of comfort and encouragement." For eight years after he became President of 93%-Catholic Argentina in 1946, Strongman Juan Peron got along well enough with the clergy. The Archbishop of Buenos Aires, Santiago Luis Cardinal Copello, publicly prayed for "most copious blessings from Heaven" on the President. But last...
Billy had chosen Glasgow (pop. 1,100,000) to start his new crusade because it is Scotland's biggest city and because of its reputation as "the most sinful city in Great Britain." Compared with Chicago, Glasgow's crime statistics make it seem like a haven of peace, but in its twisted cobblestone alleys and dingy, Dickensian slums lurk hundreds of drunks, thugs and pickpockets. London's Sunday Pictorial warned Graham what to expect: "These thugs prefer the knife and the knuckleduster to Christ and crusaders...
...When, in 1951. Monte Durham was arrested in a petty housebreaking, he had been in and out of St. Elizabeths Hospital four times in six years. Psychiatrist Joseph Gilbert had no hesitation in testifying that Durham was of "unsound mind" at the time of the crime. Under the M'Naghten rule, the question was whether he knew that what he was doing was wrong. Said Dr. Gilbert in effect: this could not be answered yes or no. The U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in the District of Columbia reversed Durham's conviction on a technicality, then held...
...brunette bit of fluff who soon climbs in with him. Dan becomes a bodyguard for a gambling czar, kills a man, takes over a bookie ring of his own. He all but forgets about reporting as he becomes infatuated with the world of crime -with its sense of power, its money that produces a kind of evil freedom, its masculinity ("The deferential male is an object of derision to criminal woman"). Much of this first novel's wayward charm lies in its passing epigrammatic remarks. Sample, on a TV M.C.: "He was a matador who played human beings instead...
Himself a longtime newsman (Philadelphia Record, New York Post), Author Grafton has found no startling truths about big crime-his plot in the end becomes downright hokum-but he offers many fascinating insights: how it feels before a holdup, the psychology of crap shooting, the relaxed domesticity enjoyed by the off-duty criminal. He can also be quietly amusing, as when he compares a detective's carefully indirect questions about a robbery ("I hear some pals stopped in to see you last night") to a modern poet who must find "some oblique and more beautiful way of indicating what...