Word: crimes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Definitely not! TIME is too busy presenting to its readers such items as: The Bomb & the Man, Death & the Ballot Box, Shallow Peace, Anti-Climax, End of the Line, Crime & Punishment, Death & the General, The Wilted Flowers. . . . You editorialize with: "There was as yet no sign of confidence from the Man of the Year . . . that anything could be done. . . . The feeling was abroad that . . . even presidents [were] mere foam flecks on the tide. In such a world," you sob, "who dared be optimistic...
Joseph E. Hicswa, chubby-cheeked and 20, from Wallington, N.J., was a private in the Army. Last week he stood before a military court in Osaka. Its eight judges had found him guilty of stabbing two Japanese to death with his bayonet. The crime, they said, was "premeditated, vicious and unprovoked," and Private Hicswa was sentenced...
...first grade in school. But the idea has progressed faster. It has already turned into 15 books which have made her a highly successful mystery writer, with Hollywood contracts. And last week it turned into a contract to become editor of her own mystery magazine, the Craig Rice Crime Digest (scheduled to begin publication this spring...
American Genre. Novelist Thomas Mann recently proclaimed Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment "the greatest detective novel of all time" (TIME, Jan. 21). It was a considerable tribute, and there was considerable doubt among detective-story addicts whether Dostoevsky deserves it. Some critical minds which are addicted to detective stories believe that today more craftsmanship goes into mystery novels than into all other kinds of novel combined. Moreover, successful murder still requires imagination, as much as in the days of Edgar Allan...
...ABOVE TYPES OF AIRPLANES WERE BUILT TO FLY AND NOT TO SCRAP. THEY HAVE YEARS OF SERVICE IN THEM AND IT IS A CRIME TO DESTROY ANY AIRPLANE THAT CAN POSSIBLY BE USED. RETURNING VETERANS AND FLYING ENTHUSIASTS SHOULD BE GIVEN THE OPPORTUNITY TO BUY THESE AIRPLANES AT NOMINAL PRICES. ALL THE ABOVE AIRPLANES ARE OF A TYPE THAT WILL NOT BE COMPETITIVE WITH NEW TYPES...