Word: crimes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Americans." Lately, life has brightened for the Madelinots. They have four quick-freezing plants, so their fish brings a higher price. On the islands there are eight producers' cooperatives and seven consumers', 50 schools, with eleven new schools under construction. There is no divorce, virtually no crime...
Something for Everybody. The shopgirls and workmen who comprise most of the Mirror's audience get more than politics for their British penny. Says Mister Bart: "There's something for nearly everybody." The somethings rarely include straight news. The accent is on short, spicy stories on crime, tragedy and sex, eye-catching headlines (HE DIED AS THEY DANCED UNDER THE STARS), lively photographs, a caustic daily column by "Cassandra" (William Connor), and comics, ranging from the Mirror's own stripteasing Jane (TIME, Aug. 25) to action-packed Buck Ryan...
...real trouble with the Thomas committee seemed to be the committee itself. Instead of buckling down to the problem of Communism where it hurt, as in the labor unions, it had gleefully pounced on Hollywood, where the publicity was brighter. It had failed to establish that any crime had been committed-i.e., that any subversive propaganda had ever reached the screen...
André Gide had adapted the dialogue for Franz Kafka's dark parable, The Trial, with painstaking exactness ("I effaced myself"). To convey the uncanny mood of Kafka's story (about a man tried for an unnamed crime and eventually executed by the officers of an unnamed court), Actor-Producer Jean-Louis Barrault (Children of Paradise) had staged it with imagination...
...Army, except of course in wartime, consisted almost entirely of senior officers, most of them in the Secret Service. There were two universities, one at Oxford, and the other at Cambridge. Cricket and football were not much played and-possibly as a consequence-there was a great deal of crime...