Word: murders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Shelton and Birger gangs, roaming through bloody Williamson County in armored cars, blazed away at each other on sight, killed mayors and cops with abandon. But they did not annihilate each other. Birger was convicted of murder and hanged...
Since the Catalina flew the British flag, Wong Yu will be tried in Hong Kong. Since piracy laws don't yet cover air piracy, he will probably be charged with simple murder...
...Evil My Love (Paramount) is only as evil as the Johnston Office will bear. A dashing, crooked artist (Ray Milland) so deeply fascinates a missionary's late-Victorian widow (Ann Todd) that she becomes his front in a particularly ugly plot for blackmail, leading to murder. Thanks chiefly to Ann Todd's able and sympathetic performance, it is possible to guess that essentially this is a study of the disintegration, through sexual passion, of a morally delicate character. But the script can never say as much-still less examine the facts. Its only sufficient explanation of the widow...
Wallace started by getting the wrong foot in his mouth. He read a letter by George Polk, the CBS correspondent whose murder in Greece (TIME, May 24, July 5) is still unsolved. Next he attacked Newsweek (Folk's former employer), CBS and the press in general for not doing enough to clear up the crime. Perhaps he was trying to ingratiate himself with the newsmen by showing concern for their rights; more probably he was chiding them. In any case, he made the correspondents angry. Wrote Britain's discerning Rebecca West: ". . . Never have I seen ... such a miracle...
...weeks. He was in Belgrade, and had told his office he was going to Rome to buy clothes. The first the Trib knew of his perilous mission was when the visit was broadcast over the rebel radio. (The U.S. Embassy at Athens, still nervous after Folk's murder, passed the word to the Trib that it would not be responsible for Bigart's safety...