Word: gun
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gun on anybody...
Although radio interview's with holdup victims are old hat. Victim Harry Ingersoll, 44, a San Antonio loan company owner, reluctantly set a precedent last week in the annals of crime broadcasting. He was interviewed by San Antonio's KITE while the robber still held a gun on him. KITE's Newsman Harry Van Slycke picked up a police alarm of a holdup at Ingersoll's office, rang up Ingersoll and turned on a tape recorder. At the scene of the crime, the young gunman ordered Ingersoll to answer the call and act natural...
...Tommy had himself rammed through last fall. Last week, while the council mulled over the mayor's proposal (which would also give a shot in the arm to Democrat D'Alesandro's campaign for the U.S. Senate), Maryland's general assembly beat Tommy to the gun by passing a Senate-approved bill outlawing ad taxes anywhere in the state. Republican Governor Theodore R. McKeldin assured newsmen that he would sign the bill into law, thus boosting his own campaign to succeed Tommy D'Alesandro as Baltimore's mayor...
...analysis of a group of prostitutes, their motivations and emotional problems (The Call Girl; Ballantine, $4.50). Greenwald's is a highly specialized sample from the profession's top economic stratum. Six call girls went to him for analysis; he personally interviewed ten more; and ten others (too gun-shy to face him) were interviewed by three of the call girls themselves. Because the findings were surprisingly uniform, he feels that they are valid...
...Frisk. In Manhattan, Louis Rivkin, part owner of a Broadway clothing shop, measured a man for a suit, felt a bulge in his hip pocket, remarked,"You've got a gun in there, haven't you?", lost $900 and eight suits...