Word: crimed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Country operates on a five day week," and published a series of CRIMSON New Haven editions. The OCD did not take the hint, and declared they would print only on Saturdays when there were Big Doings. Since then the News, except for continually running fake pictures of Crime editors, has barely done enough to justify publishing five days of the week. In a number of articles they have, in effect, invited us to analyse them in return, a pompous task we feel incapable of doing, naturally, without mounting the oratorial pedestal...
Alfred Hitchcock Presents (Sun. 9:30 p.m., CBS) is the naked title of one of the new crime shows, and the movie director with the fine hand for murder and mayhem should be recommendation enough for TV fans of terror and torment. Unhappily, the best part of the show is Hitchcock's own sardonic introductions of the sponsor ("And now for that part of the program you have all been waiting for") and his description of his TV spot (a series of "situation tragedies"). But his play last week was the tired tale about the girl who turns...
...crime shows, CBS's Wanted (Thurs. 10:30 p.m.) and The Lineup (Fri. 10 p.m.), follow the Dragnet pattern of sticking to fact, however stranger fiction may be. Wanted told the unhappy story of a sadistic wife-beater and general no-good, who accidentally killed a girl by running her down with his car. After being sentenced to a maximum ten years for manslaughter, he jumped bail and is now WANTED. The deplorable principle of the show was to portray the villain as so abhorrent that all viewers would ride along to the very end having a happy hate...
...couple of other crime shows came through with stories equally uninspired. In Appointment with Adventure (Sun. 10 p.m., CBS), an Italian mother (Lili Darvas) broods about the murder of her partisan son by the Germans, but "instead of seeking revenge on the Germans, somewhat irrationally goes after the U.S. soldier who commanded her son's unit. In Justice (Sun. 10:30 p.m., NBC), a schoolteacher is framed by a tart and a fake cop, and pays blackmail until it is about time for the show to end. Then the schoolteacher rebels and the blackmailers get their comeuppance...
After months of this, Dostoevsky fell all the way back to Russia, in time to see his wife waste away and die of TB. An ash-blonde, 20-year-old stenographer named Anna Snitkina, who came to take dictation for The Gambler and Crime and Punishment, stayed on to become the second Mrs. Dostoevsky, and his last and greatest love...