Word: crimed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...drawbacks as well as its virtues (TIME, Oct. 29). Like few other papers that impose a similar taboo, the liberal evening Blade (circ. 194,501) this month had to fight for its 13-year-old policy against a community brought to the brink of explosion by reports of a crime wave among Negroes. Paul Block's worldly, well-edited Blade not only stood by its rule but also last week gave Toledoans of equal good will a lesson that few will soon forget...
...burly Negro" had burst into St. Vincent's Hospital and gagged her with an ether-soaked rag. Again, radio and TV stations fanned the fever; a WSPD radio program called The People Speak even broadcast angry bleats from citizens who denounced the Blade for covering up a Negro crime wave. More than 1,500 women registered for judo courses at the U.S. Marine Corps station. Toledo's police chief asked for ten more patrolmen. Vice Mayor Ned Skeldon proposed an 11 p.m. curfew. Citizens' committees bombarded city hall with demands for action...
...Page One editorial, the Blade explained that it avoids racial identifications in crime stories because 1) "a crime is the same regardless of who commits it." and 2) "such identification is often confused and mistaken." From last week's scare, the Blade was able to add a new argument for holding to its policy. "As all of us have seen," said the editorial, racial identification in a crime story "clearly plays into the hands of those who would stir up animosity...
...columns a week plus his syndicated name-droppings, Miller teetotals through the nightspots until 4 a.m. On dull nights he prowls for crime stories, Winchell-fashion, in a black 1957 Chrysler equipped with three short-wave radios. By 5 a.m. he goes home for supper with his wife, a onetime singer named Cindy Stoker, sleeps for an average of four hours, then bangs out one of his columns...
...Opening a drive against gambling, the Massachusetts Council of Churches began distributing a Massachusetts Crime Commission report, which estimates that there are 10,000 bookies in the Commonwealth. The council has scheduled 15 radio and TV programs on which men and women whose .lives have been wrecked by gambling will testify...