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...Breed celebrates Lt. Price Adams (Leslie Nielsen) and the new, soft-spoken young cops of the Los Angeles Police Department, college men and nearly all scientists, who speak scornfully of the old-style "fat cops who steal apples." Straightforwardly acted, it is an absorbing story of men rather than dum-de-dum-dum bunnies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The New Season | 10/20/1961 | See Source »

...Dum Dum (Brenda Lee; Decca). The nation's oldest child singer is on with another hit. At 16, after ten years in the business, she shows remarkably few signs of wear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Pop Records | 7/28/1961 | See Source »

BOAC's crews in Asia, carrying only overnight cases, enjoying the semiofficial aura of their familiar dark blue uniforms, making frequent comings and goings, usually got casual treatment from customs officials. But last May Indian customs at Calcutta's Dum Dum airport found a 7-oz. gold bar in Chinese Stewardess Jenny Wang's handbag. (Her explanation: Hong Kong residents "customarily" carry gold as "mad money" in case the Chinese Communists should suddenly overrun the city.) A fellow steward, David Furlonger, seeing her being searched, was overheard by an Indian customs official as he remarked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Smuggler's Delight | 8/31/1959 | See Source »

Tipped off by the Dum Dum arrests and by Hong Kong police, who discovered the names of BOAC employees among the records of a suspect Hong Kong "businessman," BOAC moved in its security chief, a former Scotland Yard detective named Donald ("Flying") Fish. He discovered that some crew members carried jewels, jade, but chiefly easily disposable gold, netted $600 to $700 a trip. Fish spent six weeks investigating, interviewing scores of BOAC staffers, often surprising them at such odd points along their routes as BOAC rest rooms, even (with permission) examining employee bank balances. Last week BOAC announced that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Smuggler's Delight | 8/31/1959 | See Source »

...Walter Schumann, a 20-member choral group; of a heart 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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Sep. 1, 1958 | 9/1/1958 | See Source »

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