Word: policeman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stop but twice during the entire three-hour dance. My Fair Lady mingles with Pal Joey, white dinner jackets mix with black ones, red chemises mix with red jackets; but the lights blend all into violet. Some dance in the circle created by the shower curtain, while the jowly policeman at the door smiles benignly at the scene...
Kenneth Eugene Hager, 45, is a big (6 ft. 2 in., 240 Ibs.) cop who knows every lush, pimp and tart on "Sin Corner" in Charleston, W.Va., where he has been running them in for 20 years. Today he is Charleston's Policeman of the Month, but not for making arrests. Ken Hager's proud specialty is saving souls...
...learned that both his father and brother had just died. He promptly went on a bender that could be heard for blocks. Back at his job on the force, he was suspended three times for drinking, improper conduct, breach of duty. "I was nothing but a bum in a policeman's uniform," he says. "I showed no mercy, no tolerance. My arrest tactics were often disgraceful brawls. Most of the time I was so sick from drinking that I couldn't make it to roll call...
...understand," he says. "I would much rather not bop. It isn't any fun. You don't know what will happen. You may be killed. Or you may kill someone. Would you think it funny if I said that my real ambition was to become a policeman...
...conclusion is a convincingly humble plea for Americans, particularly intellectuals, to restate the faith of their fathers. He does not mention the plain fact that a great many of these intellectuals have wanted the same thing the Communists themselves wanted-Utopia -but failed to see the secret policeman who lurks behind all schemes to legislate the world into goodness...