Word: crimes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...MURDER SOLVES A PROBLEM-Marion Bramhall-Crime Club ($2). The murders of an unhappily mated pair in a New England college town are solved by a young professor and his fiancée, both suspected by the police. A lively affair with ample emotional punch...
...spang into the running gun battle in which Deputy Sheriff Wil liam E. Tibbett, father of Baritone Lawrence Tibbett, was killed by an outlaw. (Thirty-five years later, Earl Warren's father, who had branched out into real estate, was found murdered in his Bakersfield home. The crime is still unsolved.) Young Earl Warren started his working life as a call boy, waking up railroadmen on time. Then he was a newsboy and cub reporter for the Bakersfield Californian. He played the clarinet in the Kern County High School band, later joining the Musicians' Union. At the University...
...chapters that make up the two parts of Work and Play are slower going than the previous books. The France that they describe has come out of World War I without knowing how deeply its strength has been sapped. In some ways it is healthier: the vice and crime that Romains described as characteristic of prewar France is now hidden or distant. The high-minded liberal intellectuals talk vaguely of Russia. The relaxations are banal. The moneymaking is easy, and tiresome. The love affairs and divorces are equally casual. The French suffer from the delusion that the Third Republic...
Seriocomic "Oxie O'Rourke" has lately been taking on more importance than ever in the Daily News (circ. 440,000). Once he was merely a sidelines character, along with his straight man, "Torchnose McGonigle," in Clem Lane's stories of Chicago crime and political shenanigans. Now Clement Quirk Lane has become City Editor, and the Daily News has been ballyhooing him as a Finley Peter Dunne, finding with more ease than accuracy a parallel in Oxie and Torchnose to Dunne's "Mr. Dooley" and "Mr. Hennessy...
...Young, along with John Reed, Max Eastman and Floyd Dell, founded the leftist and pacifist Masses. When the U.S. got into World War I, his most famous cartoon, the savage Having Their Fling, helped put Art and colleagues on trial for sedition, a capital crime. For seven days & nights during that trial, Max Eastman could not sleep a wink...