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...School, where the other boys made fun of his bandy legs, his myopic green eyes, his thick spectacles and a speech defect that made him say "wowse" for "house" and "awong" for "along." They backed off when Chuck bore in with fists flailing; they fled when he opened a knife...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Even with the World | 2/10/1958 | See Source »

...students, one armed with a shovel, the other with a knife, attacked a third boy in the cafeteria. Last fortnight a 13-year-old girl was reportedly raped in the school basement. Later a hoodlum from the outside punched a policeman on the school grounds, and two other hoodlums, also from the outside, assaulted the school's recreation director. As a result of these incidents, Principal George Goldfarb, 55, was twice called before a special grand jury investigating juvenile delinquency in the schools. He was supposed to appear a third time last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Outrage in Brooklyn | 2/10/1958 | See Source »

...year-old boy accused of raping another 13-year-old girl at P.S. 20; six drunks who stabbed two girls in a subway station; 21 boys found with an arsenal of knives, clubs, and wire whips; a 17-year-old boy nabbed while trying to hide a hunting knife under a jukebox; three boys arrested for stealing a car; two boys accused of killing a man of 21; two other 16-year-olds charged with trying to rape a 12-year-old girl in a tenement hallway while her little brother, 7, looked helplessly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Outrage in Brooklyn | 2/10/1958 | See Source »

House Broken. In Detroit, police said that Freddie Washington smashed a rear window in trying to rob a bar, found himself locked in the washroom, climbed out and ran home for a chisel, screwdriver and knife, went back in the same window, broke into the bar, returned to the washroom, where he was still hiding when police arrived...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Feb. 10, 1958 | 2/10/1958 | See Source »

...looking for the weapon used 10 hack to death a shopkeeper and a liquor-store clerk. Last week an off-duty policeman named James Kitchell pushed a hand under an icehouse half a block from the scene of the murders, and pulled out a bloody butcher knife. Kitchell rushed to his boss. Police Chief Warren Norman, with the killer's weapon and an idea of his own: instead of calling the usual press conference, why not put the knife back and ask the town's newsmen to cooperate in a ruse? Springfield's two TV stations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Electronic Lure | 1/27/1958 | See Source »

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