Word: policeman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...made statements, planned strategy, and, without suffering a single bruise on his pudgy body, became chairman of the Teamsters' Western Conference. Frank Brewster was his enforcer - and he was a good one. Arrested three times for picket-line brawling, Brewster once landed his mighty right hand on a policeman. Another cop remembers what happened after Brewster was taken to headquarters: "We stopped the elevator between the first and second floors and we worked him over. I've never seen a guy get such a beating. Finally he slumped down on his knees. We took the elevator...
...placid Ohio River town of New Albany, Ind. (pop. 32,000) one day last week, a Methodist minister and an Indiana state policeman took time out to celebrate an anniversary: three years before, under the gentle, persistent prodding of the Rev. Robert W. Gingery, 37, burly, hard-boiled Sergeant Marvin Walts, 49, had given up the unequal struggle, and become a member of Gingery's Trinity Methodist Church. To honor the anniversary, Policeman Walts invited his minister to ride with him on a routine inspection of the countryside. Then, at 1:15 p.m., as they cruised along U.S. Highway...
Gingery knew, as he put it later, "that something awful had happened." As he sat frozen in the seat, Hassett leaped from his car, raced across the road toward the police car with a pistol in each hand, obviously to kill what he thought was another policeman. "My first thought," said Gingery, "was that there's nothing I can do-nothing. He's coming to kill me." But the second thought was stronger: picking up a sawed-off shotgun from the front seat of the car, he worked frantically with the safety catch, released it just as Hassett...
Arms & the Woman. In Chicago, Rookie Policeman Gaston M. Cook, 35, was suspended from the force for making advances in a darkened theater to a young woman who proved to be a policewoman on duty...
Nevertheless, It Moves ... In Hurst Green, Sussex, England, Policeman Ronald Marshall halted a prewar pickup truck, noted grass growing on one running board, an inch-long piece of metal in one tire, a triple-layer canvas patch on another, was assured by the driver, "I think the guv'nor is going to take it off the road soon...