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Friend of Eddie Coyle. With Robert Mitchum. This may have been the best movie of the summer though you would never know it from the reception it got. It bombed almost everywhere except in Boston, and where it was said that the movie owed its success to its realistic handling...

Author: By Emily Fisher and Richard Turner, S | Title: Thank You Richard Nixon: Ten Movies | 1/24/1974 | See Source »

Savalas' Kojak is far less violent and ready for the chase than CBS'S Mannix. He solves crimes with his head, like a Polish Sherlock Holmes. In last week's episode, fragments from a dead man's glasses ultimately led him to the heart of a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: A Polish Sherlock | 12/31/1973 | See Source »

Witness Patsy Lepera testified to a Senate investigating subcommittee last month that "we got to the point where we put orders in. You get what you want in 24 hours, sometimes less." Lepera added, "You could never begin to operate if you didn't have crooked bankers, crooked C.P.A.s...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WALL STREET: The Securities Snatchers | 12/3/1973 | See Source »

A horrible call by an official during the first quarter sent the Crimson offense into their fatal tailspin. The contested play: a Stoeckel pass to McInally; the criminal: a stingy Yale defensive halfback named Charity; the crooked judge: an official who refused to call interference after Charity flattened McInally while...

Author: By Charles E. Shepard, | Title: Tending the Flock | 11/26/1973 | See Source »

As it turned out, little love has been lost over the years. Only rarely have the two officials been the best of friends. Fairly typical was Thomas Jefferson's description of his No. 2 man, Aaron Burr: "A crooked gun or other perverted instrument, whose aim or shot you...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HISTORICAL NOTES: The No. 2 Blues Is an Old Song | 10/15/1973 | See Source »

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