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...Dragnet (Thurs. 9 pm., NBC). Bet-ter-than-average cops & robbers show...
...having half a dozen radios in his Stamford, Conn, house. He is at his drawing board an average of six hours a day ("if you count the time I spend dreading the whole idea"), and usually has the radio on while he works. His favorite programs: Dragnet ("because it's played with more restraint than most whodunits") and Mary Margaret McBride ("because she's usually interviewing someone I know...
With the present holes in Hershey's draft dragnet, the armed forces had little hope of reaching the 3,000,000 men the President had ordered the Joint Chiefs of Staff to have under arms by next June. When the Korean war began, there were 1,400,000 men & women in the armed forces. Since then, 400,000 draftees, reserves and guardsmen have been called up. But General Omar Bradley estimated that the services would fall short of the June goal by about 10%. Pentagon pessimists thought it would be twice that...
...violated due process of law because; it was too vague, "a 'dragnet' which may enmesh anyone who agitates for a change of government"; it lacked provisions for judicial proof of individual membership in subversive groups; it set up a "presumption of (organizational) guilt"; and the law constituted 'guilt by association' with a vengeance...
Last week, as it rounded out its first year on radio, Dragnet's realism reached a new high: the criminal got away. "We don't try to punch a moral," says Webb. "If there's one in the show, the people get it. We don't even try to prove crime doesn't pay-because sometimes it does...