Word: policeman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...details of the arachnids' life are contained in a new book, The Spider, published in England, by John Crompton (author of The Hunting Wasp). Crompton, who describes himself as a layman writing for laymen, writes vividly and with vast enthusiasm. At various times he has been a mounted policeman in Rhodesia, a shipping-firm employee in China, an R.A.F. pilot, a novelist, a beekeeper. He has read-and liberally quotes-the experts, including the great Frenchman J. H. Fabre (TIME, Aug. 22) and several Americans. But his book is larded with personal observations and reminiscences, and he pays...
...Louisville, Ky., a traffic judge considered a policeman's testimony that Mrs. Katherine Mae Sahner had been "very talkative" when arrested for reckless driving, dismissed the drunken-driving charge against her with the comment: "Many women are talkative...
Silent Witness. In Detroit, Frank Buss, charged with biting a policeman while drunk, got a suspended sentence when the judge learned that he had no teeth...
...friends and acquaintances, shy, scarecrow-thin John Peet was not easy to ken. At 34, he had gone through an odd succession of careers: enlisted man in Britain's crack Brigade of Guards, English teacher in Prague, private in the Spanish Civil War's International Brigade, policeman in Palestine, chief Berlin correspondent for Reuters news agency. Some people considered John Peet insecure, haunted and unhappy; others regarded him as witty, well-informed and likable. Allied officials in Berlin had privately marked him down as a Communist or at least a fellow traveler, who passed information to the East...
Case Closed. In Painesville, Ohio, Policeman Leon Debolt investigated a girl's tearful complaint against her father, wrote his report on the case: "Daughter, 15 years old, stayed out till 3 a.m. Got paddled. Needed...