Word: crimed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From pulpit and bench, from social workers and editorial writers, the U.S. regularly hears dire warnings about the growth of juvenile delinquency and the crisis this implies for urban civilization. Nonsense, says Dr. Lauretta Bender, senior psychiatrist at Manhattan's Bellevue Hospital; the proportion of juvenile crime to urban population is no greater now than it was at the turn of the century. The interesting psychological question, she told a law-school forum at New York University last week, is: "Why are so many of our children not delinquent?" "Children have an amazing capacity to tolerate bad parents, poor...
...business end of a pistol. Following orders, he turns off on a side road where two other badmen join forces with the first. Disgusted by the emptiness of Kelly's wallet, the leader, John Cassavetes (who starred as a juvenile delinquent in ABC's memorable TV Crime in the Streets), wings a couple of shots past his head. The gang then attempts to sell Kelly's car, and failing to get the money that day, moves into his home to await developments. Learning that Kelly's father is a wealthy man, they decide to add kidnaping...
House of Bamboo (20th Century-Fox) is a well-made cops-and-robbers story filmed in Tokyo. Enhanced by the petal-like beauty of the scenery, the story al most makes crime seem worth...
...WOMAN IN THE CASE, by Edgar Lustgarten (218 pp.; Scribner; $3), is a retelling-and also a brilliant explanation -of four famed British murder trials in which women figured prominently. A well-written account of a true crime has twice the chilling impact of fiction. Author Lustgarten, equipped with a sharp, legally trained mind and a novelist's eye and heart, is probably just the man to succeed William Roughhead and Edmund Pearson as top writer in the true-crime field...
Died. Joseph Henry Jackson, 60, Sunday book editor and daily literary columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle, longtime radio commentator on books (Bookman's Notebook), anthologist (Viking Portable Murder Book), writer of fact-crime books (Bad Company) and California history (Anybody's Gold); of a cerebral hemorrhage; in San Francisco...