Word: murderously
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...told in a story by Donald Taylor. In the last century, it seems, the teachers of anatomy in Edinburgh were forced to deal with "resurrectionists" for the dissection subjects they needed. Two of these "vicious human vermin of the gutters of the city" find it more convenient to murder than to dig up their stock in trade ready-killed, and familiar faces begin to show up on the dissecting tables, faces that had been seen alive, laughing and talking, a few hours previously...
...time at all, Gabin finds himself involved with a rather unsavory assortment of jigolos, impotent husbands, virgin wifes, etc. Unfortunately, the identity of the murder is revealed, by a peculiar habit of knuckle cracking, to the audience near the middle of the film, and much of the suspense is lost, especially in the final scene when Gabin gives the killer-suspect, expertly acted by Jean Desailly, one of the finest and most subtle third degrees in recent film history...
Sybil Overton's husband was on the lam, accused of murder, and her stepdaughter was in cahoots with the police. Then, suddenly, all the problems on her Road of Life were solved: a plane crash polished off the lamister. Mary Noble, that long-suffering Backstage Wife, realized at last that her husband was really in love with her. Nora Drake, psychiatric nurse, finally finished analyzing her boy friend and saw him head home to his ex-wife and family. All last week, soap operas were blowing their last bubbles on CBS; writers were winding up their plots, sending...
...five men who publish the monthly Menard (Ill.) Time are serving a total of 130 years for felonies ranging from statutory rape to murder. Each workday, in the interests of some 2,350 convict readers, they troop in prison dungarees to the Menard Time* office to practice journalism behind the walls of the Menard branch of the Illinois State Penitentiary. Menard's Editor David R. Saunders has had job offers from several newspapers and a wire service. But it will be a while before he goes to press for pay: he has 32 years yet to serve...
...Most famed of convict journalists was the old New York Evening World's talented, sadistic City Editor Charles E. Chapin, sent to Sing Sing in 1919 for the murder of his wife. As editor of the Sing Sing Bulletin, Chapin drove his convict staffers as hard as he had the worldmen, ended up tending the prison flower garden after authorities, unappreciative of Chapin's aggressive editing, suspended publication...