Word: murders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Walter Reuther, 40, well on the mend from his attempted murder last April, came down with malaria...
...Salonika police claim an enviable record: since 1936, they say, not a single murder in that Greek port has gone unsolved. Six weeks ago, the body of 34-year-old CBS Correspondent George Polk was found floating in Salonika Bay, his hands & feet tied together, a bullet in his head (TIME, May 24). But by last week the police had made no arrests...
Concludes CBS's Smith: "There is no doubt that the murder .. . was a cold, deliberate political demonstration, planned to be spectacular, planned to intimidate. If the murderers are not discovered, an invisible but inevitable pressure of intimidation will rest on every American correspondent abroad." But the Greek police last week were pursuing another line of inquiry less likely to embarrass higher-ups. Their official theory: George Polk had been killed because of something in his "personal life...
...words have been changed for new. Recks not his own rede becomes Minds not his own creed. In all, there are 25 such changes. Some are debatable, but the principle is sound. It is equally sound, of course, to cut the text. There are purists who will yell bloody murder at the very idea that Shakespeare can possibly be "improved" on in any way at all. Nonetheless, Olivier has treated him to some shrewd editing...
...burrows clinically into some untidy closets of human guilt and frustration. In his first book, he managed to put most of his readers in a dipsomaniac's shoes. In his second, on homosexuality, he was nowhere near so persuasive. Now he has written about a grisly rape-murder case to prove that, vicariously at least, there is something of the murderer in everybody...