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...rewritemen often reach for a cliche instead of a fresh phrase. To stop this practice, City Editor James H. Richardson of Hearst's Los Angeles Examiner (circ. 324,468) last week printed a special list of 85 "Forbidden Words" for his staff. Among the banned words and phrases: dragnet, aired, bared (for revealed), legal bombshell, probe (for investigate), sweeping investigations, innocent bystander, fair sex, goodies, kiddies, smoking weapon, dropped dead, ill-gotten gains, minced no words, nuptial knot, socialite, tongue-lashing, whirlwind courtship...
...tape-recording of a couple quarreling after the police had come to question them about their runaway son. It was part of a remarkable new crime show, Night Watch (Mon. 10 p.m.), which CBS Radio has launched as an answer to NBC-TV's fabulously successful crime series, Dragnet. For Jack Webb's skillfully re-created police episodes, Night Watch substitutes the real event; the script is replaced by the police blotter...
...March 15 cover of TIME shows four bullets with "Dum Du Dum Dum" written over them to represent the classic Dragnet theme. If these were drawn, as I suspect, to represent dumdum bullets, I credit the artist, Boris Chaliapin, with the finest pun TIME has made in quite a while...
...Your "Ides of March" cover portraying the well-known musical theme of Dragnet must have left . . . millions of Dragnet fans aghast...
...Tune Detective," I might point out that the Dragnet theme is melodically identical with the first four tones of Schubert's Unfinished Symphony...