Word: crimed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...poured a swig of hot rice wine through his lips. Shrilly Wu shouted: "Long live Sun Yat-sen!" He sang China's national anthem. Then police boosted Wu and his comrades into an open truck. On each man's back was a white placard noting his crime. Sirens wailing, the truck rumbled through Shanghai's busiest streets to a dusty alley on the outskirts. The condemned were yanked down, lined up. Executioners fired pistol shots into the backs of their heads...
...year ago last week, a gunman jumped from a black sedan in upper Manhattan, pumped three slugs into a boss stevedore named Tom Collentine, and got away. Along New York City's 771 miles of crime-ridden waterfront, the murder sent only a ripple of excitement. Most of the New York press gave the killing a good play and then went on to other news. But not the New York Sun. It set a man to digging out the story behind the story. Last week stocky, hard-digging Reporter Malcolm Malone ("Mike") Johnson got a well-earned Pulitzer Prize...
...Trial by Jury" is the final number on the program, which opens with "The Safe-Crackers," a musical sketch being presented for the first time outside of Chicago. It explodes the popular theory that crime does not pay and is produced by Gerald H. Fisher...
...Gardner's position in the mystery field is towering in the face of the fact that the average detective story in the U.S. sells a mere 3,000 in the original trade edition and nets its author about $800. A story fortunate enough to be picked as a Crime Club semimonthly selection may sell about 10,000 copies, while Gardner's trade-edition average over the past five years has been 24,000. But position with whodunit fans is only half the story. Author Gardner is not only the most popular practitioner, he is also the most prolific...
...with a staff of eight-including a business manager, secretaries and household help. His mail is peppered with requests for legal aid, and frequently he rides forth to aid the underdog. His conditions for taking on such cases are unvarying: the person must have been convicted of a major crime, he must have no money, he must have exhausted all other legal means...