Word: crimed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Puerto Rican yearly average migration of 50,000 is a trifle. In New York City some Puerto Ricans have managed to gain for the rest an outsize reputation as gang fighters. West Side Story-style; actually, Puerto Ricans form 8% of the population, and their share of the crime rate is only slightly more than...
With these boldfaced, blaring lines on its front page, the London Sunday Pictorial last week splashed the gaudy tale of a murderer who could talk freely about his crime. In 1950 Donald Hume was tried for the murder of a tinhorn used-car dealer named Stanley Setty. After his first trial produced a hung jury, the judge presiding at his second trial directed the jurors to find Hume not guilty of murder. Hume pleaded guilty to the lesser charge of being an accessory after the fact-he had dumped Setty's dismembered body from an airplane over the Thames...
Brooding over so-called horror movies and their influence on adolescents, Variety pointed out, in its most scholarly diction, that many psychiatrists disagree with "that element of the public which ascribes juve delinquency to crime pix and the harmful effect of horror pix on the young mind." Among the dissenters: Dr. Martin Grotjahn, associate clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of Southern California School of Medicine, who thinks that / Was a Teenage Werewolf, Blood of Dracula, etc. provide a means of "self-administered psychiatric therapy for America's adolescents.'' His cathartic argument: "Certain childhood anxieties never...
...comes only when one has long ceased to be an undergraduate. "There existed between the two parties very little of kindly intercourse, and that little generally secret. If a student went unsummoned to a teacher's room, it was almost always by night. It was regarded as a high crime by his class for a student to enter a recitation room before the ringing of the bell, or to remain to ask a question of the instructor...
...mother's life, and then the legal restrictions are so severe that many hospitals and gynecologists will have nothing to do with even legitimate cases. In 18 states the woman who seeks an abortion (other than the rare "therapeutic" kind) can be jailed for her part in the crime. Yet the latest findings* of the late Alfred C. Kinsey's Indiana University team of sex researchers-whose sampling is admittedly small and not entirely representative of U.S. womanhood-offer striking statistical clues to the prevalence of the practice...