Word: crimed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...setting up a special telecast featuring Police Commissioner Stephen Kennedy, an NBC producer offered two of the headquarters reporters $25 each to appear with the commissioner and question him. Then they learned that Kennedy's talk would include New York's semiannual crime statistics-a surefire front-page story...
...Radio and Television, an earnest organization headed by a dentist's wife and staffed by eleven housewife "panelists," put out its sixth annual ratings of juvenile TV programs, condemned 31 out of 67 as "objectionable" or "most objectionable." Hopalong Cassidy, said NAFBRAT, is "objectionable because of typical Western crime element." At Captain Midnight, "even the stronghearted falter," and Jungle Jim episodes are a "mixture of kidnaping, torture, unbearable suspense, horrible screams." NAFBRAT also condemned Superman ("Youngsters believe his 'super' talents to be within the realm of possibility. In this lies the danger") and Little Rascals (". . . flaunting their...
...Year Setback. The prediction came true. Last month Police Commissioner Timothy O'Connor ordered the Scotland Yard office to cease work immediately, had it padlocked and guarded round the clock, reassigned the unit's officers. Complained Chicago's Crime Commission Director Virgil Peterson: "Now the police department is back where it was ten years ago as far as hoodlums are concerned...
...Chicago Loop last week like so many Fourth of July flags. Processing the bets were highly organized wire rooms where the big bookies sat at banks of telephones, raked in a take every dollar as good as the rackets produced in Capone's heyday. All this confirmed the Crime Commission's long-held fear that the town would be opened up shortly after last year's election...
...part, Detective Pinnell, whose clumsy handling of the Woodward killing (TIME, Nov. 14, 1955) had earned him little respect among newsmen, could have averted any possible misunderstanding if he had briefed the press and pledged it to secrecy immediately after the crime. Later he jeopardized further attempts to pay the ransom; he blabbed to reporters that the packages left by Weinberger contained little real money. When the kidnaper upped the ransom from $2,000 to $5,000, Pinnell's cops asked most papers and wire services not to print the information, but apparently neglected to call the Times...