Word: murders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last November 21-year-old Walter John Cross, a hard-up truck driver, strangled a crippled London watchmaker and snatched his wallet. Three months later Cross was hanged on the gallows of Pentonville Penitentiary. He may have been the last man who will ever be executed in Britain for murder...
Unripe Time? Last week the House of Commons abolished the death penalty for murder for a trial period of five years. Halfheartedly, the Labor government opposed the change. Kindly Home Secretary Chuter Ede, who ten years ago was speaking out for abolition of the death sentence, now apologetically opposed it. "The time is not ripe," he said, "for the undertaking of this particular reform." He was thinking of Britain's soaring postwar wave of armed robberies and assaults, and of his shriveled police force, 14,000 men under authorized strength. Murders had increased from...
...pleasure yacht. Working for them on a trip to the Tropics, he falls in love with Rita Hayworth, the wife of "the most successful criminal lawyer in the country." In order to make enough money to take her away with him, he gets mixed up in a setup murder that is as bewildering to the audience as it is to Welles...
With slav'ry by day and murder by night...
...intellectual level the play is sound enough. The though that murder and war are the equally unnecessary products of ignorance and dullness, while perhaps not universally satisfactory, is at least acceptable enough to be called sound. But on the dramatic level, "The Survivors" reveals little that could be classed as sound theater, much less as entertaining or inspiring theater. The play takes place in a small Missouri town immediately after the Civil War. It concerns the perverse hatred of three brothers and their grandfather for a local rancher, who apparently contrived to have two of the brothers captured...