Word: crimed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Left to Mayor Kenny was a city fairly free of crime and vice (Hague always boasted of his kingdom's purity), and a city with a first-class medical center and maternity hospital. Left to Mayor Kenny also was a city with one of the highest tax rates in the nation, rigged assessments, discouraged businesses, factories deserted by fleeing industry, a city turned into a huge patchwork of slums by political graft. Left to historians was the problem of discovering, if they could, the exact details of how Frank Hague, on a salary never bigger than the mayor...
Ford Theater (Fri. 9 p.m., CBS). Hecht & MacArthur's Crime Without Passion, with Claude Rains and Margo...
This is reading period. In order to allow you to concentrate on studies without the temptation of something much more pleasant, the Crime will suspend publication tomorrow. It will be back at your favorite newsstand or doorstep Monday...
Georgia-born Reporter Johnson, 44, whose drawl and easygoing manner hide a bulldog tenacity, was neither a crime specialist nor an I-cover-the-waterfront expert when he started. He was a general-assignment man who had served the Sun for 20 years, on everything from the burning of the Morro Castle to the storming of Okinawa. In a 1946 series on hijacking, he had picked up some waterfront contacts. Using them, he started his digging into waterfront crime...
Last week the Collentine killing was still unsolved, but Johnson's report had run to 50 hard-hitting articles. It had also stirred up three official police investigations and a demand for legislative action to cut down crime on the waterfront. But Johnson and the Sun were still far from being ready to sit down: there was more to come...