Word: crime
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...West Germany, onetime (1930-32) World Heavyweight Boxing Champion Max Schmeling heard that Franz Diener, the man he beat for the German boxing crown in 1928, had landed in a Soviet-zone jail. Diener's crime: while chief butcher in an East German sausage factory, he got caught passing out state-owned Bratwurst to hungry friends. Schmeling wrote to East Germany's Puppet President Wilhelm Pieck, got Diener pardoned by the Russians. Last week, after refusing a job as East Germany's commissar of boxing, Franz Diener fled to West Berlin and gratefully awaited a reunion with...
...junglelike clutter and heat of the Senate caucus room, a battery of microphones and three television cameras caught the drone and tension of the Army-McCarthy hearings. The performers could scarcely match the line-up of the 1951 Senate crime hearings, which starred such unforgettable characters as Bible-quoting Senator Charles Tobey, Underworld Moll Virginia Hill and Frank ("The Hands") Costello, but the cast was fascinating in its own way. There were McCarthy, alternately menacing and benign, doodling or rolling his eyes at the ceiling; slick-haired Roy Cohn, licking his lips and buzzing in the boss...
...procedure wrangles in the caucus room, the size and enthusiasm of the TV audience were well below expectations. Hooper ratings showed that only about 11% of New York City homes with TV sets were tuned to the first two days of hearings-one-third the interest of the 1951 crime show. Trendex and other pollsters found the same audience apathy in other cities. In California, where the afternoon sessions arrive at lunchtime, restaurants reported a marked but not serious customer shortage. In Toronto, interest was greater than in most U.S. cities, with viewers jamming bars and TV demonstration rooms...
...before the committee stepped William Richter, counsel for the Newsdealers Association of Greater New York, which represents more than 1,000 newsstands and stationery stores. Crime-and-horror comics, said Richter, are forced by the distributors on many newsstand dealers who do not want to sell them. They are often included in the same wired bundles with slick-paper magazines, even though they have not been ordered. If the retailer returns an "unreasonable amount," said Richter, "he can be cut off completely" from his supply of fast-selling, popular magazines...
...exchange, heard last week over CBS Radio, sounded too real to have been spoken by actors in a studio. It was, in fact, a tape-recording of a couple quarreling after the police had come to question them about their runaway son. It was part of a remarkable new crime show, Night Watch (Mon. 10 p.m.), which CBS Radio has launched as an answer to NBC-TV's fabulously successful crime series, Dragnet. For Jack Webb's skillfully re-created police episodes, Night Watch substitutes the real event; the script is replaced by the police blotter...