Word: crimed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chicago, was offering (for those who could follow it) a new definition of war. Said Dr. Wright: "War is a condition where tensions pass the threshold of a certain intensity of pressure." Some of these tensions, summed up the panel secretary later, could be measured-"like gastric ulcers, and crime and suicide rates." It was a matter of grave concern, said the secretary, that the world was unable "to measure whether tensions between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. are decreasing, or are greater than the tensions within China...
...Louis was having better luck. Police finally recovered his 1946 Cadillac, stolen in deepest Harlem last October, and charged a dining-car waiter with the crime. The waiter, they said, declared that he absolutely would not have stolen it if he had known it was Louis...
Radiomen developed a mild case of jitters. A couple of showmakers with a mystery on Mutual hurried down to "talk things over" with Mrs. Hanowell. The National Association of Broadcasters had all sorts of little parleys with her. Columbia nervously dusted off a six-month-old report on crime shows and juvenile delinquency prepared by a friendly psychologist. ABC's Program Director Robert Saudek got off a hasty proclamation: ". . . Radio listening ... is a spectator sport whose influence on a child's personality is probably even smaller than the proportion of time he spends...
...networks would have to do better than that. Already in the congressional hopper was a bill asking for an investigation of radio's crime shows. The thought of all this bad publicity was enough to fill the dreams of radiomen with 17 kinds of screams...
...loss of $50,000, the Columbia Broadcasting System last week shoved Information Please off the air to broadcast an unsponsored program. It was a "documentary" on U.S. juvenile crime called The Eagle's Brood-the fruit of one of U.S. radio's most promising seedlings: the CBS Documentary Unit...