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Johnny West heard. He opened the cab door, shot Conn in the lungs and hit a game protector named Frank Friemoth in the shoulder. But as Conn sank, his Tommy gun cut loose. West toppled out to the pavement, dying, his face a bloody pulp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Punks | 8/2/1948 | See Source »

Hard-Headed. In Champaign, Ill., John L. Franklin had given up trying to raise asparagus after three years, built an asphalt drive across the patch, this spring discovered sprouts cracking through the pavement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, May 24, 1948 | 5/24/1948 | See Source »

...Russian officer turns to leave the American, German, Englishman, and French woman he has met on the Berlin express, he lets fall to the pavement the card bearing the American's address. An insidious fear begins to creep up on the moviegoer; surely this allegorical film of our times is going to justify all the advance publicity given it by the Hearst press. But "Berlin Express" is an American film and all must still be for the best; the Russian alights from the jeep, picks up the card, smiles for the first time during the picture, and waves goodbye...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Berlin Express | 5/11/1948 | See Source »

...matter of fact, a great deal of space is devoted to what may and may not be done on the streets. It seems that Cantabridgians had trouble with reads and alloys long before Lamont construction necessitated Quincy Street pavement tearing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Thou Shalt Not . . .' | 4/23/1948 | See Source »

...watcher knows neither his identity nor his motive. The body is found and the news buzzes through to Homicide. During the balance of the show, the audience follows a veteran detective (Barry Fitzgerald), his young helper (Don Taylor) and a swarm of assistants, from laboratory experts to pavement pounders, at the long hard job of smelling out suspects and closing in on the criminal. It is a remarkably thorough, fresh and engrossing exposition of big-city criminological methods...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: New Picture, Mar. 22, 1948 | 3/22/1948 | See Source »

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