Word: crime
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tears & Cold Turkey. Last week the machine mowed down Mayor Martin Kennelly, 67, a businessman with snow-white hair and matching reputation, who was drafted in 1947 to save the Democrats from defeat (after the noisome reign of Boss Ed Kelly). In two terms Kennelly cut the crime rate, reduced prostitution and open gambling, started school reforms and slum-clearance projects. He played along with the machine on patronage-but not far enough. Flushed with confidence after last November's Democratic victory in congressional elections, the leaders decided that Kennelly's degree of independence was an unnecessary nuisance...
...figure of Raskolnikov in Crime and Punishment has important philosophic implications. There are comparable conceptions of the Superman in other countries: in England, Marlowe's Faustus; in Germany, Nietzshe's Ubermensch; in America, "Superman Comics." With his pipe clenched slightly crooked through an ironic smile, Professor Renato Poggioli warmed to his subject. And if the mark of a brilliant teacher is his ability to remain popular while insulting, threatening, and deliberately patronizing his students, then Poggioli must certainly be brilliant...
Malcolm Bersohn '43, who for the three years prior to his arrest in 1951 had been studying at the Peiping Union Medical College, declared on his arrival in Hong Kong that he was "full of shame and remorse for his crime against the Communist people...
...letter received by his mother last week, Bersohn said he had been imprisoned as "a punishment for crime...
...Interview. To City Editor Jack Donahue of the Houston Press, 400 miles away, the evidence against Weaver seemed flimsy. Donahue, a promoted police reporter who has scored a series of notable crime beats for the Press, flew to San Angelo to find out for himself. He was soon discouraged; everybody seemed to think Weaver was guilty. Furthermore, Weaver was dodging newsmen, had refused to say anything about the killing. For four hours Donahue argued with Weaver's lawyers, got an interview, and next day splashed Weaver's denial of the murder across Page...