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...Mark VII; Warner) is a stiff salute from TV Star Jack (Dragnet) Webb to the Marine Corps drill instructor. A raucous prowl through the barracks and across the drill fields of Parris Island, the film is not based upon last year's tragic "death march" of a recruit platoon into the Carolina swamps. Made with the blessing and help of the Marine Corps, The D.I. might otherwise almost seem to be anti-Corps propaganda, su ruggedly, almost brutally does it portray the making of a young leatherneck...
Lesson Repeated. The French blamed the massacre on the feuding between the rival FLN and MNA, and claimed that the killings demonstrated what "general terror" would result if they withdrew. In angry reprisal, the French flung out a dragnet of troops, killed 169 rebels in 48 hours. But the FLN had made its bloody point: after Kasba Mechta, any village in Algeria will think twice before welcoming French patrols or refusing to contribute support and money to the FLN rebels. To make the lesson doubly plain, the FLN deliberately repeated the lesson with the men of two tiny communities near...
...have carried the interview to eleven of the 79 stations handling the show, gave Parker and Hamilton an offer-which they scorned-of equal time on Wallace's show. Parker and Hamilton, shrewd cops with good records (whose names are familiar to viewers of Jack Webb's Dragnet), filed complaints of criminal libel against Cohen and his TV hosts both in Los Angeles and Manhattan. Parker announced that he would sue all concerned, including sponsor Philip Morris. Also ready to sue: ex-Mayor Fletcher
Divorced. Jack Randolph Webb, 37, creator, director and star (as wooden-faced Sergeant Joe Friday) of radio and TV's Dragnet (TIME, March 15, 1954); by his second wife, Dorothy Towne, 27, blonde sometime actress; after two years of marriage (including three separations), no children; in Hollywood...
...infected as to make BBC seem "a stern, inflexible nurse of home-grown talent." Johnnie Ray turned up as the star performer of Easter Sunday's feature program. Sniggered the Express: "Twiddle the dial any evening, and the chances are that the crack of a shot in Dragnet will set the objets d'art tinkling on your chimney piece. Or that pathetic crib of an American quiz show, The $64,000 Question, will dribble a sad, self-evident little droplet of knowledge into our sitting room." Further, the Express charged that 50% of the time that ITA allocates...