Word: crimed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Street is a workmanlike, exciting show, but basically it does not seem different enough from a lot of crime fiction to be worth all the documentary bother. Semi-documentaries are verging, in fact, toward formula. If they are to realize their fine potentialities-or even stay as good as they started, they need new ideas and new problems. Self-repetition is not immediately fatal; but it brings death to the door, and leaves the door on the latch...
...foot in his mouth. He read a letter by George Polk, the CBS correspondent whose murder in Greece (TIME, May 24, July 5) is still unsolved. Next he attacked Newsweek (Folk's former employer), CBS and the press in general for not doing enough to clear up the crime. Perhaps he was trying to ingratiate himself with the newsmen by showing concern for their rights; more probably he was chiding them. In any case, he made the correspondents angry. Wrote Britain's discerning Rebecca West: ". . . Never have I seen ... such a miracle of tactlessness...
...case involved a blonde, two deaths and "a certain foreign power." For the third time in 2½ years, an Ankara court last week tried to hand down an acceptable verdict in the famous Arcan murder. By now the court was fairly sure it knew who had committed the crime. The question remained...
...October 1945, a young man walked into Arcan's consulting room, pumped seven shots into the doctor and got away-not without being seen. Five eyewitnesses agreed that the youth was slight, fair and high-cheek-boned. Nonetheless, when heavyset, dark, round-faced Resit Merdjan confessed to the crime, the court barreled the case through, carefully refrained from calling the eyewitnesses, and sentenced Merdjan to 25 years. Slight, fair, high-cheekboned Hashmet Orbay, son of the chief of Turkey's general staff, who had been with Merdjan when the murder weapon was bought, was dragged into the case...
...take the blame, on the promise that highly placed friends of his friend Orbay would get him off lightly. Sole witness in Orbay's defense was shapely, blonde Musherref Ishikman, his "fiancee," who testified that Hashmet had been visiting her at her house at the hour of the crime. The court merely concluded that Orbay had found another friend to help him out. This time the court sentenced Orbay to death for "premeditated murder...