Word: crime
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...were cultivated after hours in a bar across the street from the Federal Building, where Webster was the only P-D reporter to have a special "saloon expense account." His expense account also included other unorthodox items. Once he bought an overcoat to go to Indianapolis to cover a crime story. When other reporters refused to believe that he had charged the coat to the PD, Webster told them stiffly: "If you're going to act like an office boy, you'll be treated like an office boy and you'll stay cold. I happen...
...home that a man may set a rat trap with Gorgonzola cheese . . . Many in the home are dissatisfied with the Gorgonzola because it smells up the place. They should prefer to see Swiss cheese . . . put into the trap. But let no one confuse a process with a crime, and if the Gorgonzola is smelling up the house, then change the cheese, but, in God's name, do not forget that the house has to get rid of its dirty rats!" Others-e.g., Quincy Howe, Elmer Davis and John Vandercook-took after McCarthy with verbal scalpels...
Party Line-Up. As a result of its coverage, L'Unità attracts non-Communists along with Communist readers. Many a non-Communist buys the paper simply for its news and its full coverage of scandals, crime, sports and entertainment, and swallows a thick coating of propaganda with the news. For example, L'Unità's elaborate coverage of the Wilma Montesi scandal last week was angled to fit in with the party's battle against the government. "I don't like L'Unità's politics," said one monarchist reader...
...Perfect Crime. In Atlantic City, N.J., on trial for stabbing Charles Gorham, Willie May Baker revealed that she had since married her victim, went free after paying a $100 fine...
Last week, in a special series, the News told its readers just how far the three Rs have spread. "A teen-age reign of terror." it said, "has transformed New York City's public-school system into a vast incubator of crime in which wayward and delinquent youngsters receive years of 'protection' while developing into toughened and experienced criminals." What is being done about the rising rate of rape, assault, knifings, thefts and dope addiction? Says the News: largely because of a feeling that neither the Board of Education nor Superintendent William Jansen (TIME, Oct. 19) will...