Word: inspector
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...CREATIVE PERSON: "Georges Simenon." A documentary about the prolific French novelist and author of the famous Inspector Maigret detective stories. A selection of Simenon's works will be dramatized on a NET Playhouse series. Thirteen Against Fate premieres next week...
Mister Master. The title mania will be hard to snuff out. A senior administrative court inspector, first class, glories in being called Herr Verwaltungsgerichtoberinspektor, and a section manager at the big German electrical firm of Siemens is an Abteilungsbevollmächtigter (section plenipotentiary), even though he may be in charge of only six men. A man who wants his auto fixed knows that he had better address his mechanic as Herr Meister#151;Mister Master. A university graduate's Herr Doktor becomes part of his name, and if he earns a second degree, he adds it, too, becoming...
...about 8:30 a.m. we hear that the cops are coming. One-hundred-seventy-three people jump out the window. (I don't jump because I've been reading Lord Jim.) That leaves 27 of us sitting on the floor, waiting to be arrested. In stroll an inspector and two cops. We link arms and grit our teeth. After about five minutes of gritting our teeth it downs on us that the cops aren't doing anything. We relax a little and they tell us they have neither the desire nor the orders to arrest us. In answer...
...about some bad days at New York City's police department. From the commissioner on down, everybody is up to his badge in problems. Commissioner Anthony X. Russell (Henry Fonda) is sleeping with another man's wife and hating himself in the morning. His boyhood buddy, Chief Inspector Charles Kane (James Whitmore), has been caught double-dealing with a crime syndicate in order to protect his erring son. And as if letting Benesch (Steve Ihnat) get away were not bad enough Detective Dan Madigan (Richard Widmark) has all he can do to keep his pretty blonde wife (Inger...
WITH deep-rooted memories of Argentina under Peron (who tried to humiliate Borges--then a librarian--by making him a provincial poultry inspector) Borges has a great love for the United States. "After all," he recalls, "it came to me in the best way, through literature--Mark Twain, Hawthorne, Melville. . . . What I find very admirable is that people here have a keen sense of right and wrong...