Word: policeman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Away with It. That is more or less what happened five years ago in Boston when a well-organized band of crooks relieved Brinks, Inc. of its clients' assets. Jerry Florea (Tony Curtis), a born organizer, rises from a Boston gutter to mastermind the multimillion-dollar robbery. Policeman Ed Gallagher (George Nader), Jerry's longtime friendly enemy, cannot break his alibi. Just as Jerry is about to split the take, it turns out that the story idea was only half right for Hollywood. Jaws drop, eyes pop, and guys go for gats as Jerry announces to his hoods...
Throughout World War II. the ex-policeman's job was to look over the shoulders of the fighting men as a political commissar, spying for Stalin. During the advance on Warsaw, he was attached to Rokossovsky's army, and it was he who (after consulting Moscow) prevented any help from reaching the" Warsaw uprising. One day in 1944, Bulganin reported to U.S. Ambassador W. Averell Harriman that a certain U.S. officer had been overheard cursing President Roosevelt and voicing his hope that the President would be defeated. When Harriman appeared unexcited by the tip, Bulganin was overheard...
Postwar Promotion. Stalin, after the war, shunted aside the triumphant combat soldiers like Zhukov. but Bulganin the policeman-politician-executive rose to Minister of the Armed Forces, Marshal of the Soviet Union, and finally a full member of the Politburo. Medals jangling, he reviews Red Square parades, sometimes on horseback, but more recently, as his weight has increased, in a ZIS limousine. Soviet officers still joke that he does not know the difference between a mortar and a howitzer...
...rifles, the blacks with clubs and spears-filed out of their barracks and drove in 300 trucks to a narrow strip of grassland that separates the white suburb of Westdene from the crowded Negro slum of Sophiatown. The cops marched quietly into the sleeping warren. Every 20 yards a policeman took up station. "We mustn't waken these bloody Kaffirs," warned one officer. "We'll shock them well enough after daylight...
This week Ira Hayes will be buried, with full military honors, among his comrades in arms at Arlington National Cemetery. Not far away, his bronze likeness, in the Marine Memorial, reaches with outstretched arms towards the flag. Said a Phoenix policeman, who had arrested Hayes many times: "He was a hero to everyone but himself." Said Ira's grieving mother: "He was a pretty little...