Word: crimed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Publisher Alex L. Hillman started it in November 1944, to add a touch of prestige to his profitable, hurdy-gaudy string (comic books, Real Romances, Crime Detective, etc.). Pageant went out for good bylines, good pictures and no reprints. But neither Eugene Lyons, its first editor, nor Vernon Pope, its last (since May 1945), had the paper to justify promoting Pageant into competition with The Reader's Digest or Coronet. In the past 18 months, Pageant (circ. 270,000) has lost $400,000 for Publisher Hillman, mainly because of rising printing and paper costs. Pope and most...
High Price of Slums. Unemployment in Spanish Harlem has risen with each packed plane's arrival, and New York's state and city authorities have begun to worry about the area's rising relief costs, crime, the swift rise in tuberculosis and venereal disease...
Father's flat, sinister voice is probably the most familiar and vicious in radio's rogues' gallery. It seems that scarcely a crime is committed on the air these summer days without Ralph Bell having a trigger finger in it. His ominous accents exude the criminal essence so unfailingly that many directors hate to entrust a "hardened criminal" role to anyone else...
Bell often plays the villain in as many as 16 shows a week; his record is seven in one day. Last week, on "a sort of summer vacation," he did the dirty work in nine, including one soap opera. All this crime pays Bell about $30,000 a year, but he sweats like a stool pigeon for it-twelve hours a day, six days a week.* Even off the air, Bell sounds and looks like a hood just back from escort duty on a one-way ride. With his sneering voice goes a curling lip (with black, headwaiter mustache...
...police were listening, too. Said Bill Zarat, the Police Department's Director of Youth: "I don't agree with those statements about police hounding the kids into a life of crime, but on the whole it's a good program." It was so good that Zarat was recording it, for use in training his policemen...