Word: crimed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Speaking of Harvey Matusow the liar, Mississippi's Senator James Eastland recently linked the man's weapon and his crime. "His mouth," said the Senator, "has been used against his country." Matusow has quite a mouth, and he was busily using it again last week to his country's detriment and the Communist Party's advantage...
...blind and deaf, and refuses to defend himself. To Deliot, of course, such problems are merely salt to his solitary porridge. After one of those sketchy investigations that create almost as much mystery as they resolve, he produces, in a clever courtroom scene, the full portrait of the crime, including the face of the killer. Actor Redgrave is the making of the show, though at times he almost fidgets it away. Kieron Moore, Leo Genn and Jane Henderson are excellent. It's a nice little puzzler, in a squirrely sort...
...Vagueness of the law setting up the Government Operations Committee violates the Constitution. The law should, the lawyers said, be construed closely in criminal cases, and, by precedent, must thoroughly define the crime. Berlin included in his brief a section attacking the validity of each of the ten indictments against Furry...
Died. Colonel Calvin H. Goddard, 63, Army medical administrator, military historian and criminologist, famed for his work in ballistics and as the founder (in 1929) of the nation's first school of scientific crime detection at Northwestern University; of a heart attack; in Washington, D.C. Colonel Goddard's ballistics techniques were widely disputed in 1927 when he presented evidence at the Sacco-Vanzetti trial that a bullet from Nicola Sacco's gun had killed South Braintree Payroll Guard Alessandro Berardelli...
Crashout (Hal E. Chester; Filmakers) is a crime-doesn't-pay movie that consists of one long chase complicated by another. The first begins with a smash-bang crash-out of six convicts from prison. The second begins soon after, when their wounded leader promises them a share of the loot he has hidden away if they do not abandon him. While the crooks pursue the hidden loot, the police pursue the crooks...