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...psychologist for sex offenders. Nobody else wanted to handle them so there were no qualifications. In fact this was not even my major in college; I majored in history and humanities." While working at San Quentin he counseled a man who had written the TV and radio show Dragnet until he was arrested for forging a $50,000 check...
...seems," intoned Senator John Mc-Clellan sternly, "that in this dragnet procedure we have caught an assortment of man-eating sharks." It was indeed as forbidding a catch of fish as John McClellan's Senate labor rackets investigating committee has yet snared. One by one last week's school of hoods-including notorious Extortionist John (Johnny Dio) Dioguardi-appeared before the committee in the Senate caucus room and rasped out their Fifth Amendment pleas. But the evidence against them was there nonetheless. It added up to another chapter of the story of how mobsters took over segments...
Split Board. Vogel's avowed enemies are onetime TV Producer (Dragnet) Stanley Meyer and Joseph Tomlinson, a millionaire Canadian contractor and biggest (5%) individual Loew stockholder; both have long been dissatisfied with the operation of the company. Last year, with M-G-M showing a $3,000,000 loss on movie production, the threat of a proxy war was stemmed only by a deal that split Loew's board. At the February meeting Vogel was allowed to choose six directors, the Tomlinson-Meyer group another six, with a neutral member in New York Herald Tribune President and Editor...
...Herald Tribune's John Crosby, the New York Times's Jack Gould, Hearst's Jack O'Brian-and often comes out ahead. The Seattle Post-Intelligencer's Bill Jahn, who runs monthly popularity polls that frequently draw more than 1,000 returns, tagged Jack (Dragnet) Webb and Lawrence ("Champagne Music") Welk as coming stars months before they received national recognition. The Los Angeles Mirror News Columnist Hal Humphrey's previews and criticism have caught on so fast that he is now syndicated to 51 other dailies. From readership surveys and the mail, editors invariably...
Crime & Punishment. In San Antonio, Sheriff Owen Kilday, faced with heavy repair bills on TV sets smashed during county jail riots, warned that he was going to crack down hard if any more sets were damaged: prisoners would not be allowed to watch Dragnet or The Lineup...