Word: crimed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Post Office Department has made Harrison clean up his magazines before putting them in the mails, and New York's Society for the Suppression of Vice filed a complaint against them. But he was undeterred. When he saw the popularity of the Kefauver crime hearings on TV, he decided that "inside stuff" was even better than cheesecake...
...free-lance writer for the Miami Daily News, Jane Wood specializes in offbeat features, seldom lands on the front page. But last week one of Reporter Wood's offbeat features touched off Miami's biggest crime story of the year, exposed a robbery gang led by two cops, and caused another shake-up in Miami's police department, already riddled by bribery charges...
...beat, stripped of his badge and pistol, suspended from the force and charged with robbery. Reporter Wood saw it all, wrote the story, gave the Daily News a clean beat over the Herald. She also scored a clean beat over her husband; he is the Herald's crime specialist...
...suppose TIME thinks it bright and sophisticated to write up a crime story in the smug manner . . . of the life and death of Barbara Graham [June 13] . . . If we (society in general) refuse to interest ourselves in the lives of maltreated and disturbed children, we must expect to pay the penalty which these children's adult years bring upon us in the form of robberies, murders, etc. Execution of the offender only gets us off the hook. Our penalty in Barbara Graham's case ought to have been our payment of her Aboard and keep in a prison...
Hollywood's top production bosses solemnly testified that movies could not realistically exclude' sex and violence, but far from inspiring juvenile crime, films often combatted it by portraying its ugly consequences, thus arousing public zeal for reform. MGM's Dore Schary argued that his Blackboard Jungle, condemned by Critic Mooring, did not "accelerate" delinquency but "insulated" against it. The family itself, testified Paramount's Y. Frank Freeman, is delinquency's chief hotbed, and "an old-fashioned hickory stick" is the remedy. Taken to task for the violence dished out in Warner's unreleased juvenile...