Word: crimed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ruts 2 & 11. In Baltimore, the TV section of the Sun listed, for the same hour on the same night on different channels: "The Texan (Bill Langley is pursued for a crime committed by an outlaw who resembles him. With Rory Calhoun. Film.)" and "Restless Gun (Vint Bonner is pursued for a crime committed by an outlaw who resembles him. With John Payne. Film...
...certainty is the more horrible because her family will not believe her story of the crime. They first ignore, then mock her. "Hilary, I hate a liar," says her father. Her wambly, 17-year-old stepsister Janet is too busy with a married schoolmaster to watch over her charge. Auntie Florence, nearly 80, who combs the beach for "anything and everything" and hides her treasure in a cave, is absorbed in herself. Only Hilary's younger brother Peregrine, whom she alternately pets and patronizes, shares her "delicious fearfulness." But eventually even he fails her. And when Hilary...
...story of a child who witnesses a crime and cannot make the adult world understand has been written before, but rarely so well. Devil by the Sea is the season's most chilling tale, and British Novelist Bawden tells it with the devil's own gift of gab and style. She can charm as well as chill. The innocent childhood scenes she sets down, in contrast to the mounting horror in the background, are as engaging as any of the beach idyls sketched by Lewis Carroll...
...violating the accepted priniciple that no defendant may be put in jeopardy twice for the same crime, Castro has destroyed even the veneer of legalities which the trials maintained. He has also shown that he places himself above the legal machinery of the revolutionary regime. It seems that those whom Castro proscribes will be punished no matter what the courts may decide...
...hand (hanging) ; in his 20-room mansion in West Orange, N.J. Longie Zwillman, who once used the alias George Long, came out of Newark slums to become a rich and famed Jazz Age bootlegger, peer and sometime friend of the best names in the blue book of U.S. crime: Dutch Schultz. Louis (Lepke) Buchalter. Bugsy Siegel, Meyer Lansky, Lucky Luciano, Frank Costello, Al Capone. In 1951 New York City's ex-Mayor William O'Dwyer linked him with the Brooklyn syndicate, Murder Inc. The US. Government indicted him in 1954 for income tax evasion. But Longie...