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...adding more traveling representatives, the Admissions Office would not only insure each applicant a qualified interviewer, but would stimulate interest in many superior secondary school students whom the Harvard dragnet does not now enmesh. This addition to the Admissions staff would certainly cost more money, but the selection of the best undergraduate body for Harvard College is certainly well worth the expenditure...
...friendly confines of a Y.M.C.A. meeting, TV Actor Ben Alexander, Dragnet's heavy-footed Sergeant Frank Smith, in real life a solid businessman and parent (three children), rapped out his private A.P.B. on a teen idol, the late Cinemactor James Dean: "This ruthless, selfish, egotistical young fool was nobody's idol until our children were told that he was. He was an All-American rebel against all manners, morals, family decency and Christian society...
...cops scoured Staten Island, picked up suspects, kicked up lawns looking for a knife. They groped for explanations, e.g., maybe the killer was a psychotic from the hospital, checked records, bars, neighbors. But neither dragnet nor theories helped the Nimers. Soon after they were carried out and neighbors took the children away, Loujean and Melvin both died, and with them died the nice family and the dreams that had almost come true...
...ailment; at University Hospital, Minneapolis. Walter Schumann's credits were various and occasionally bizarre. In 1941 he published The Hut-Sut Song (lyrics: "Hut-Sut Rawlson on the rillerah and a brawla brawla sooit . . ."), also wrote the famed dum-da-dum-dum theme of radio-TV's Dragnet series...
...vaudevillian. By 1955 Freberg was well established as a minor comic in TV and a far-out satirist on records. His liveliest: a drama of passion whose only dialogue consisted of the words "John" and "Marsha"; St. George and the Dragonet, a take-off on Jack Webb's Dragnet, which sold 1,000,000 records in three weeks...