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This Webb person seems to be able to ineptly do all of these things, and from the professional point of view personifies not the true modern-day police detective, but what was formerly known as a "fly cop" [a sharp cop], and "that's a fact, ma'am" ... As for the officers who write asking Webb if he is a genuine member of the police department-they must be constables from Nellie's Apron or Possum Trot. The outstanding characteristic that he portrays is police mediocrity. One day he is looking for a little boy pulling...
...Three for Cooperstown" [TIME, Feb.1], you mention that Bill Terry holds the fourth highest batting average in modern baseball [after Hornsby, Heilmann, and Ruth]. Just how does Ty Cobb forfeit his modern-day baseball slot...
...contest was really all over. But the lions and jackals, not yet sated with crisis, would not be denied their sport. For the next two days the old Montecitorio Palace, which houses Parliament, was Rome's modern-day Colosseum and Amintore Fanfani its doomed Christian. Giuseppe Saragat, who held the power to install Fanfani and his democratic Cabinet by a thin margin, alibied that the Premier was trying to appear to be leftist, and yet was compromising with the Monarchists. "One cannot turn toward us and at the same time turn toward the right," said he in an emotional...
...highlight the plight of modern-day humor, the title piece focuses on a psychiatrist and his neurotic patient who stymie each other with the question, "What do you want?" The doctor finally admits that what he really wants is a new wing for his house in the suburbs. Going home, the patient glimpses the tremor of a leaf in the afternoon sun and sets his heart on something at once simpler and more complicated: "I want the second tree from the corner just as it stands." Several of White's other tales roll along this same rim of near...
...mail, special delivery, not by presidential emissary), gave Secretary of Labor Mitchell and Secretary of State Dulles meager applause. In contrast, they stomped and whooped in approval as Minnesota's Fair Dealing Senator Hubert H. Humphrey charged that under Eisenhower "money-changers have invaded the temple of democracy . . . modern-day pirates have hoisted a new Jolly Roger over Washington." Among the convention's 64 resolutions was one blasting the Administration and urging stepped-up politicking by the C.I.O.'s Political Action Committee. Reuther called the passage of that resolution the most important act of the entire convention...