Word: crime
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have the friendship of the Guild." Frank Schroth's management and the wartime boom gave the Eagle a semblance of health again; it pushed into the black off and on, and in 1951 won a Pulitzer Prize for meritorious public service for its series on New York crime. But Schroth could not lick his Guild problem. At each round of wage negotiations, the Guild demanded the same wage scale as Manhattan papers, which is the highest scale in the U.S. Pointing to rising costs, Schroth pleaded that he could not pay. This year, in January, the 315 Guildsmen struck...
...from Berkeley College arrived a petition to the CRIMSON, asking that the Cambridge daily extend its present limited New Haven operations to a six day a week basis. The motion was signal by more than 200 names, including several former editors of the old Yale Daily News. But the Crime has indicated no intention of invading the Daily's shrinking area of coverage...
...inside dope on stock watering, underselling, pooling and secret rebates will be available for all undergraduates wishing to enter the spring competition of the Crime's Business Board, beginning tonight, 7:30 p.m., at 14 Plympton...
Desperate Young. Not for the tender-minded was the week's most probing social drama, Crime in the Streets (ABC's Elgin Hour, Tues. 9:30 p.m., E.S.T.), about the effect of grinding poverty on a sullen 18-year-old named Frankie (John Cassavetes). Author Reginald Rose's dialogue was blunt and crisp, with an authentic cadence and idiom. When a social worker (Robert Preston) asks Frankie why he is at home, just lying on his crumpled, ratty bed, he gets an unforgettable cry of anguish masked in a snarl: "Because I got a hole...
There is no great psychological depth to the collective crime that lies behind Black Rock's stranger hostility, but the cast and director John Sturges handle the tension of the situation with effective subtlety and restraint. Tracy, as a hard and embittered World War II cripple, conceals his own motivations from the townspeople just as they try desperately to hide their guilt from him. The strain builds up gradually to a series of explosive confrontations which equal any more violent movie in their excitement and match the rest of this picture in their plausibility...