Word: policeman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...recent note from TIME Correspondent Harvey Rosenhouse in Guatemala City began: "Shortly before the battle for Guatemala broke out, I arrived home one evening to learn that a guardia judicial (secret policeman) had waded through my muddy street that day to question my wife Ruth about my activities. He had passed it off by calling it just a 'routine call.' However, a friend I knew in the government phoned me soon after, and asked me to call him immediately on another phone. I did and he explained that my home phone was tapped by the police. that...
Clock Watcher. In Berlin, accused of failing to arrest a man fleeing a robbery, Policeman Erwin Plessow was sentenced to seven weeks in jail when he explained that he was due to get off duty in three minutes and could not possibly have caught the thief in that time...
Late one night in his Paris apartment, Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, editor of the weekly L'Express, got a polite phone call from a French policeman. Asked the cop: What time would Servan-Schreiber go to his office next day? Editor Servan-Schreiber, at 30 the wonder boy of French journalism, replied that he would be there at 8 a.m. as usual. Next day when he arrived at the office he found the doors closed tight and sealed with official wax. The government had seized the current issue of his weekly and temporarily closed the office. The charge: "ministers...
...asset was his unsuspected humanity. He would drop in on a Malay wedding and drink to the health of the bride; sometimes he staggered subordinates by doffing his mask of harshness and leading them ("Louder . . . louder") in some ribald army ballad. Once when a Malay woman complained that her policeman-husband had stopped her allowances, Templer replied in person. Within days the policeman reformed...
...policeman's weak dupe of a son, Donald Richards was much too strong. He stormed when he should have whimpered, but again, he was quite consistent in his performance. His pal, the fascist bully-boy, was done with minor distinction by Peter Sourian who elected to underplay a fairly meaty role...